The Trail Leading To Death-By Katie Hedgepeth

The deep but dark tunnels

Cover the area.
The mystery lies beneath here.
People hiding out as they
Wait to get out of hell.

 

The soldiers follow each other,
One after the other
As they slowly make their
Way through the tunnel.

 

Waiting patiently as they
Wait for the next battle to begin.
Quiet and still no one moves.

 

Rats crawling from one place to the other,
Infecting the soldiers that live in the trenches.
One by one the soldiers start disappearing.

These are the trenches,

The trenches that lead to death.

Break Of Day In The Trenches-By Issac Rosenburg

The darkness crumbles away.

It is the same old druid Time as ever,

Only a live thing leaps my hand,

A queer sardonic rat,

As I pull the parapet’s poppy

To stick behind my ear.

Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew

Your cosmopolitan sympathies.

Now you have touched this English hand

You will do the same to a German

Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure

To cross the sleeping green between.

It seems you inwardly grin as you pass

Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,

Less chanced than you for life,

Bonds to the whims of murder,

Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,

The torn fields of France.

What do you see in our eyes

At the shrieking iron and flame

Hurled through still heavens?

What quaver?what heart aghast?

Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins

Drop, and are ever dropping;

But mine in my ear is safe?

Just a little white with the dust.