So, my dad was cleaning some stuff out of one of his buildings and found some of my old things. Some old books that I thought were long gone and such, but he also found a very old poem. Not the greatest thing I've ever written, but what makes me remember it is how it was written. You see, it was an English assignment (seventh or eighth grade I think). We spent an entire week in the library, and we were supposed to be doing research to write a poem on the Civil War. So all the kids spent hours looking up dates and trying to make them rhyme, while I wrote mine in ten minutes and goofed off the rest of the time. (No surprise, huh?) The funny thing is, I'm the only one that got an A....and then they published it in the school paper. LOL Hmm...wonder what would have happened if I'd actually put some effort into it? ;) Well, here it is:
Shades of Blue and Grey
The Blue and the Grey
Shall clash this day
In a bloody war
Over field and moor
And in the field
Blood freely flows
A last stand is made
As the sunset glows
The land bleeds blood
Of soldier's pride
Brothers fight boldly
Yet on different sides
To clash together
One grim day
Grey with Blue
Blue with Grey
At Gettysburg
The fought and fell
The battlefield became
A living hell
The Grey has lost
The Blue has won
And now the end
Has finally begun
No one really wins
Though you see
Not the Blue and Grant
Not the Grey and Lee
For both will fight
Again some day
In shades of Blue
And shades of Grey
Fall 1992
© 1991-2009 Samantha Greene
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