Hollowed Parks

5 trees.
Side by side along the fortress walls of a castle afar.
The castle, it protects us.
It smiles for us.
It holds us here in this cold and shadowed hole.
Where there are cold and shadowed men.
These men have lost their chivalry.
Will I acquire what it takes?
What it takes to make it here.
Over there, across this man made river, sits a silent city of bodies.
The souls that once filled them have seen compassion.
Where is my compassion?
There are no stars out tonight
I’ve never seen a weed grow.