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Beneath The Watch Tower

by Ian Whiteley

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Beneath The Watch Tower

 

I watch the man who sits below the oak,

his features twisted by the scars of time,

a body wrapped inside a velvet cloak

of moss, that wasn’t there back in his prime.

 

He played amid the gnawing granite teeth

that sprung from grassy gums of evergreen

and knew nothing of those who lay beneath,

but only those who, with him, danced ...

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Monday 18th February 2013 11:53 pm

watch tower   churchyard   reminiscing   god   faith   childhood friends   old man   graves

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