{ Sweet Life With Lizzi }

  • About Me
  • What I Blog About
    • Family Life
      • The Beau Life
      • This Thing Called Parenthood
      • Sweet Marriage
    • Lizzi On Life
      • Little Notes Right Now
      • Weekly Ramblings
    • Photography
    • Writings
  • Archives
  • Subscribe
You are here: Home / Writings / Shiloh

Shiloh

May 28, 2009


Shiloh
One morning
Centuries ago
Cousins for their causes
Played battle
Little Boys
Living battle
Little Boys
Forever
A country on their shoulders
Drumbeats strike their souls
Honor Thy Country
Drumbeats strike their hearts
Honor Thy Father
Drumbeats and tears
Honor Thy Mother
Lives stopped short
For the cause
The cause that was alive
Young
Full
Life in the moment
Forgive him for his sins
Forgive him for his cousin on the field
In the name of
Salvation of his country
His own redemption
He lives
He breathes
He shall die
Not alone forever
Cousins for their causes
Slain on the field
The future was theirs
A new world
Not to be had
They are our past
Remembered by those unknown to them
Indebted to them
Forever together
Honor thy brother


–EKS, 5.27.09


This is inspired by two cousins in my family who died at Shiloh, one for the South and one for the North.
  • Share
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Related


3 Comments 0

Comments

  1. Lora says

    May 28, 2009 at 2:14 am

    “the future was theirs”

    that truth hurts me deeper than anything when we lose someone

    Reply
  2. Haley says

    May 28, 2009 at 11:58 am

    How sad. I can’t imagine what the family felt back then. A travesty. Like in “Band of Brothers” when Malarky comes across a captured German soldier who was from Oregon (like him) who’s family was German so he came back to his “motherland” to fight. They sat and talked about all the things they had in common. Then as Malarky was walking away from him, back to the camp, he heard another American soldier shoot all the captive German soldiers. Breaks my heart everytime I watch it. I can’t imagine it being family.

    Reply
  3. Jo says

    May 28, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    This has brought tears to my eyes too!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badgeShow more posts

Copyright © 2021 · by Shay Bocks · Built on the Genesis Framework · Powered by WordPress

»
«
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.