Mark Iles

The Roman Road

There’s someone right behind me
One can hear their footsteps follow
But I turn around and there’s no-one there,
save fleeting shadows in an ancient hollow

Who trod these steps before me
on this ancient Roman road?
Did Arthur and his knights pass this way
on their way to Camelot, where dreams of hope abode?

So very few, those knights,
So proud, so fierce and bold
How they battled evil
Amid the rain and cold

Footsteps come behind me
Yet again I turn and look.
There’s nothing there to see,
or hear, but the babbling of a brook

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A Splendid Sky

He died I know, I saw him
As we lay there in the snow
Frost bitten, cold and hungry
I watched his spirit go

The first death here of human kind
Explorers from old Earth
No longer do I mind
For we’ve travelled this planets girth

They never said it was a one way trip
That was not the true intent
But our ship, it landed badly
It looked so oddly bent

Walk fast they said
A rescue ship is on the other side
There’s food and a nice warm bed
A short time only will they abide

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The Spider's Stance

Never sleep with your mouth open
You can often hear this said
You never know what crawls around
When you’re fast asleep in bed.

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Android In The Sand

Once I saw an android
Sitting in the sand
He looked so despondent
With his head upon his hands.

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