What Blooms After

Hello Dreamers.

The fields were covered in them in the morning after. Blooms of flowers popped through the field covered in ash, soot, blood, visera, death. Ruined buildings, burnt trees, soot-covered bullets and craters left by cannonfire.

Strung along the soot-covered muck corpses. Some where innocents from the nearby towns. Some where soldiers - either risking their lives in defense of those innocents, other send to murder them. To the vultures they were all the same.

Yet, within the valley of death they popped. Death blooms. Poppies by anyother name. Each little red bloom a reaper, sent to claim the dead. Reclaiming the fields, ushering the dead to live on through a field of beautiful flowers.

The blood-red poppy. The universal symbol of Remeberance. Left by the Grim Reaper when someone dies from war. The flower of Flander's Fields, where a medic in World War One observed the pattern of battle following the growing of these blooms.

Solemn Rememberance. Lest we forget. May the current wars end, and new wars not start.