Digging
Bethan Le Mas
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In the night the sky burns bright It's always night, the clock ain't right The cycle's out - for twenty-eight days The sky's been dark, the air choke haze I don't wish to die but think we might The little birds have all took fright For they cannot stand the sound or sight Of us digging If all these animals premonition The follies of the glorious mission Still little hope of the donkeys listening And packing us home to mother Sweet England! What we're fighting for Who waved white breasted from the shore And sent her young sons off to war Is burnt away in mustard I third a cigarette with Tom and Jacques As we stand and peer across the land We walked last night (Or the one before) That is of no man but Mistress War She clears the bed of all its spies! Sends them twitt'ring to the skies! And slips inside your head With thoughts of infidelity We spot some errant part of man Where he should not be - a hand Clawing for the sky from land That once grew green but now lies damned For we took the earth and scored it deep Pocked with barbs, artillery Little wonder that it weeps to see Us digging Haw! This barren irony Back home she grows so verdantly Evangeline, who thinks of me As living, though I soon might not be In the night the sky is burning The clock ain't right, the world quits turning The air is fire, the ground is mud And shit and sick and piss and blood The gas will come before the dawn Blind and choke me without warning Kill me seven years hence If I am spared the barbed wire fence I look to the sky and to Tom and Jacques And those that went and ain't come back In this unbirthing - backwards-turning Black-earth churning hellish burning The little birds are all long flown Unto some untouched reach (Back home!) Where blue and green retain their brightness And day is day and night is night Where my yet-unborn will skip and play And wonder of his father's day (Who lay perhaps mud drowned at Ypres While his mother rocked his newborn sleep) "Did you make these little games?" These games, I can't recall their names Only played the game of war That he should not - this I fight for And though I might not, I hope to live And see once more the English cliffs That Evangeline need not scar her skin With digging
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