Red Ground

[KatyMan]

I wrote this years ago and was always fond of it. Believe it or not, it's inspiration was an ice skating performance by Katarina Witt (Mrs KM likes ice skating), dedicated to the dead in the then Yugoslav republic wars of the 90s:

Red Ground
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Let me be as a bird on the wing
In the sky
Above this red ground
Let my shadow only cross
In darkness
On this red ground
Let me sing, and let the wind
Carry my song
To this red ground.

My feet are lead, the earth is ice.
Crushed by this cross
I will not soar until
My body lay silent,
broken and defeated
Alone
On this red ground

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