Reblogged from Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings:

Inspired by AWD3 "Occupied" and GK3 "Abstract Art-Lily Pond

Once we had a Lily Pond

Behind the barbed wire we dream,
but try not to—
our existence is a nightmare,
a universe of grey
and we are ghosts trapped within it.

At night, I think of the lily pond,
in the vibrant green of that blackbird summer—
before--
when the air carried the scent of life,

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