The End of World War I

from Life, Death, Damnation, Peace by MDH

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Is there honour in being the last to die?
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These feet no longer dent the earth, at ease behind an oak veneer
Attend a comrades footfall firm, and nod along beside his ear

My wife she has a party with the old woman next door, each month that there’s no letter from the Office of the War
She dusts off my tin helmet, kept up from the mines, so it’s ready for some action when I get back from the line

Waiting for eleven, I’ll make the angels wait, postpone my trip to heaven for a dry land dinner date

The latter of these parties, summing four dozen and four, grow rather more dejected than the several before
My boots still in the doorway have stiffened up and cracked as if naughtily predicting that I wasn’t coming back

Waiting for eleven outside the aerodrome, swapped our pass to heaven for one for home sweet home

They sent a copper medal, their thanks for to extend, for on account of me sticking in right up to the end
And it’s that she lies down next to when darkness now descends in place of a dear husband, a breadwinner and friend

Waiting for eleven in a carriage in the woods, to stem the queue for heaven to us sounds bloody good

Bullets fall from yellow air, voices lift from murmured prayer, great army scuttled and victory declared

As my bones sink ‘neath the soil victors stand and make their plans
Survey the acres of their spoils: what for to build on this prize land
Gardens copious with growth, chapels tall with gilded naves
Castles wrapping with glinting moats, condemned red rubble and unmarked graves

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from Life, Death, Damnation, Peace, released April 4, 2019
Michael Humphrey, Jennifer Henderson (Violin)

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