Josiah Vermont

Thanks for the Flowers
-Josiah Vermont

You said “How much longer?”
and I said “I’ll be home soon..
could be any day now,
maybe when summer’s through”
But two years come and gone and
I still feel like I’m buried,
surrounded by life’s walking dead
in a concrete cemetery
Sent me a letter last month again,
it helped time pass on
like flowers placed over a grave
after the parade has gone
These days I keep my mind on edge
but thoughts trickle through slow
Summer passed me by
a long time ago