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