Grassy Halls Lined By High Corn Walls
10.12.2018
Rural road
Post autumnal equinox
Touring
Catch a glimpse
A hidden trail
Between fields of stalks
Cornfield walls
Surrounding meandering grassy walks
But the harvesters
The harvesters are there to expose them all
They combine to combine
Cut down the walls that compose them all
Take down all stalks that oppose them; fall
Shave the land of its fruits
Leave only barren exposed roots
Outlining what was once
A stalk-lined hall
Standing proud
Standing tall
Meandering
On each of its sides, a wall
And they won’t stop
‘Til they make the last cob fall
No more
No more
Grassy halls lined by high corn walls
Replaced by fields of corn stalk stubble
Exposing the once hidden grassy halls
Surely led to nothing but trouble
But as if to repent
The farmers are bent
To rework the soil
Their goal as they toil
To sow fields of corn and then
To grow walls of corn again
And so the cycle goes
And so the cycle goes
Forever more
Forever more
Grassy halls lined by high corn walls
There to run
May sound fun
‘Til you find in the fall
Combine teeth eat the wall
Are you the next one
The next stalk to fall
Nevermore
Nevermore
Poe’s wily raven calls
Nevermore
Nevermore
Grassy halls lined by high corn walls
