My mind is not my mind, therefore
I take no heed of what men say,
I lived ten thousand years before
God cursed the town of Nineveh.
The Present is a dream I see
Of horror and loud sufferings,
At dawn a bird will waken me
Unto my place among the kings.
And though men called me a vile name,
And all my dream companions gone,
‘Tis I the soldier bears the shame,
Not I the king of Babylon.
From: Ledwidge, Francis, The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge, 1919, Herbert Jenkins Limited: London, p. 252.
(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Poems_of_Francis_Ledwidge/Last_Songs/After_Court_Martial)
Date: 1916
By: Francis Edward Ledwidge (1887-1917)
From Troubles of The World 