In the darkest hour
they came for it,
bound and gagged it
put a hood over it;
it got in the car with them
they drove miles
along deserted country roads
and then they,
stopped..
bound,gagged and hooded
they manhandled it
out of the car,
marched it across
a field;
Somewhere in the distance
a church bell tolled;
they didn’t ask if it had
anything it wanted to say
before sentence was carried out..
A few minutes later the car departed,
and the field lay undisturbed once more,
now home to an unmarked grave..
A chilling poem with ominous overtones in the poet’s usual laconic style .
Powerful words that convey the bleak future