War - MMC (August 31, 2015)

Here's my Monday's Minutes entry for this week. I used the items prompt (Lily, sword, key), and based it off of the sentence prompt ("The fog lifted for a moment, just long enough to see"). It's 160 words long short:) In every way, this is very different from what I usually write. 

The Lily, the Lily 

On his silver chest

Bled with strength unwanted.

Beautiful, beautiful was the color,

But a life it stunted:

His own.

The sword, the sword,

In his limp grasp

Glistened with the same hue;

He had, he had slain many

Others, and had

Stained them likewise, too,

During war.

And the key, the key

Around his neck

Consoled its flower friend.

Hush, hush, it said,

He has kept his promise to her

Until the very end.

Be glad.

And the fog, the fog,

It lifted, 

Just long enough

To see, to see how 

These young lives had

Met an end so rough:

By men.

Her heart, her heart

Would break for those

Who shared in his same fate.

And she, she would praise

Those fallen who 

Would not live to a longer date:

Their sacrifice.

They lay, they lay

There: Lily,

Key, and steel,

And aided, aided the 

Fallen to obtain

A life more real

Than this.

auf wiedersehen, darling

- Maddie