| '"The Thousand" by Lucy Elizabeth Fryer Copyright May 2000 Lucy@Cyber-Tiger.freeserve.co.uk A thousand tears fall from steely skies Over the bloodied dust where horses lay A roll of booming thunder cries Over the tarnished clay A thousand mourners bearing arms March on inside his head Their cries testament to the deed That lay 34 horses dead Gravestone-grey buries the blue The sky knows something's wrong The rolling thunder grows louder, closer A thousand hoofbeats strong The storm is twisting into mountains The wind is screaming his name Icy tears stab at the ground The rain knows who's to blame Mouths open like the jaws of death Piston-legs churning the ground The horses of the night roar past Without making a sound In a scream of sweat and blood and tears And a fear born of guilt The murderer rises from his sleep A thousand bloodied tear-drops spilt
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