CRUST OF THE EARTH
The crust of the earth is moaning: "some dead you
have buried in
me are stirring, twiching, groaning; longing for their
sea."
The earth then told the story of the many men laughing
so free;
"they lived their lives upon the foam to be buried in
the crust of me.
Some were buried on rocky planes, some under
grasses so
free; but now they are crying with dust in their
mouths ...
'the sea, oh, the sea.'
They're saying; 'the land is full of
pain, of
hate, of robbing, of killing insane ...
but oh, how the
slap on the ground by the rain reminds us of the sea.'"
"So now you know", said the wrinkled old earth, "the
story to sad
to be; of the long forgotten, muffed in dust
...
forever away from their sea."
Jim
Brennan