Forest Sun
Forest Sun
Laid out to pasture the company doesn’t want us
We got our severance pay then thanked them
Like they thanked us the day they made us sign
We belonged to them then we were slaves
Made to work in the forest cutting down trees
Or in lead mines manually extracting the ore
Many died for it was lethal work out in the sticks
The dead were replaced by new forced workers
One in one out from the endless supply of bodies
As bodies many left unless they had longevity
Being able to endure and do that shit for decades
Till they were purloined off with severance pay
The end of a hard unique journey taken by them
How many made it to the end point do they know?
There were more dead than alive in the death factory
Of course they knew it was all documented
They lived and died by numbers for it was a system
Made by humans turning them all into slaves
In dusty files in archives their names will be recorded
The moment they became numbers in the system
Just as I was taken off our family farm by soldiers
Only a little older than myself and put into service
I never saw my parents or sister ever again
Some were made into soldiers other workers
Who decided this somebody who was near and far
I was forced to mine lead but I wasn’t so strong
They put me in the forests cutting down trees
I was there most of my time with them working
It was just like the farm and I secretly loved it
I even met my forest wife and we had three kids
They were schooled into the system by them
And eventually became wood cutters too
So my lot wasn’t too bad for me was it?
I was secretly paid off when I was too old to cut
I still lived in my small wooden hut within their land
They owned all the forest and steppes all of it
I didn’t want to escape for this was my home
Even if it was my prison all this time
I had no bars or barbed wire or faced guns or dogs
Thousands of miles of nothing surrounded us
If a man escaped where would he go the Moon?
I was the lucky one and gave my wife my final pay
Then I finally sat down to watch the trees and sun
Lizard Snail 124k
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