Bury your fears, bury your dead [Dalsnes, Year 0]

[roesslyng]

Title: Bury your fears, bury your dead
Fandom: Stand Still, Stay Silent
Characters: Citizens of Dalsnes circa Year 0
Rating: 0+
Length: 20 lines of poetry
Summary: Don't be afraid. Just stay together.
Other: Contains some gratuitous references to a certain song. Can you spot them?
Fills prompt #96, "In the storm", for the 100-prompt challenge.



Bury your fears, bury your dead

Bury your fears and bury your dead
we don't have time for crying
this won't go away, so don't hold your breath
just stay close, now, stay together.

The road is gone and the fence goes up
hold on to your caps and cats
and zip up your coat to weather the rain
as the days get shorter, the country falls:

Oslo, Drammen, Kristiansand gone
no news from Tromsø, Trondheim, or Narvik
Bergen is gone, Stavanger silent
and black noise crackles the radios, calling
Save us! Can you hear me?!

The rain will fall, but we're still here
with the mountains and sea around us
if we survive until spring, we'll sing out in May
Oh yes, we love this land.

So bury your fears and bury your dead
and sharpen your axes to still the advance
we aren't that many, but we'll be enough
so stay close, now, stay together.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hadn't seen this before - it's very fine.

[yuuago]

Thank you! <3
I don't always crosspost everything I write, so there are some things that are only posted here.