O’er The Still Poem by Cameron Gallant

The dead are living
The church bells did ring
Awoken this night
They started to sing

Away with the living
In dead quiet of night
The bells just stopped ringing
To nerve and to mind

All through the quiet
The village is still
But o’ souls they are running
Not chilled by the chill

Left and forgotten
Thought so to be gone
Left did the village
In prayer and in thought

The people left mourning
They’re few if at all
But not to their knowing
The dead did live on

(Published in Print in 'DeSSerted Island: Poem Collection' - 2014)