Soldiers to Ground

Soldiers to Ground

Old artefacts buried in the ground

Left over from the war

Now nothing but unwanted scrap metal

Slowly rusting away and losing their story

Once it was important but now?

For these metal things belonged to someone

Long ago from a different time and place

Old coins from Italy and Germany and Russia

Rusty bayonets from long gone soldiers

Bent rifles silent from past battles

Belt buckles and buttons from soldiers no more

Bent tin plates with knives and forks

Decaying ration packs from a last meal

All this and more from a ghost army

Now no longer occupying a nation

Or waiting for an attack that came

Rooting them out and killing most

Some who still remain here somewhere?

Along with their old historical finds

Silently part of history almost a century ago

Now a few dedicated historians look and dig

To preserve the past and tell the story