Replete with Colonial Army spirits

rew4er2nail

Two hundred forty two

(12.1 score) years ago

countless stripling soldiers


strapping farming homeboys

healthy agrarian lads

raised among generations

 

in summer re:


offspring original settlers heirs

family acreage encompassed


wide uninterrupted forested swaths

across sprawling vistas


sparsely populated enclaves,

now heavily industrialized


lovely bones occupying


unmarked never known graves


buried amidst avast

cleft rapacious urbanization

long forgotten innocent youths

hailing within then bucolic

Montgomery, Delaware and Chester county

forsook their young precious lives

voluntarily promising sons

risking life and limb

more often former versus latter

sacrificing stripling flesh

encompassing urbanized tracts

quite familiar to yours truly

suddenly made aware

unbeknownst till yesterday

informative literary handiwork

titled "A Glimpse of Freedom"

engagingly written by Douglas Shupinski

details innocently naive country bumpkins

sacrificing potential sweat of brow,

albeit grueling labor

fostering holistic existence

transforming boyz to men

hardened green soldiers

into battle weary fighters

regarding, kickstarting, envisioning

inchoate cause named freedom

emancipating fledgling America

against British throne

awareness percolates,

perturbs, permeates psyche

synchronizing, manifesting, galvanizing

how past historical events

within close proximity,

where I mostly resided

since birth, now experience

absorption, communion, edification...

with dead souls

nearly deathly quiet

only most perceptive can detect!

 

  • Author: rew4er2nail (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 8th, 2019 17:14
  • Category: Sad
  • Views: 30
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