No Poet Peach

A blog of poems and musings by PJR PEACHES

And if you find me…

In commemoration of the recent discovery and ceremonial burial of US and British troops found at the Battle Of Camden Site from the American Revolution. Video:https://youtu.be/TmAJ5fBankE

And if you find me, know I had traveled far

From the lochs I had known and the peaks I had cherished

Over the waters deep of the Atlantic

To the hot lands of what they named the Carolinas for a king of mine long ago gone

Like me, all things come crumbling down

And if you find me, know I had watched the dark night come in a country far from home

And somewhere near Edinburgh, there’s a barstool I left empty

And a woman waiting to hear my footsteps on the hearth’s creaky floorboards

And if you find me, raise a toast for me because I did what I could with what I had, a curse that all men live

And if you find me, march me home again, and bring my grandsons here to see my bones

And if you find me, sing a song that takes me back to that northern place that I called home