101. War Seen Through Different Eyes
War Seen Through Different Eyes
War is different
for those who are finite.
I learned this from
the stories mortals told me.
Immortals lived past it
yet mortals saw war as an ending.
To us in the Underworld,
every ending was a beginning.
If you were fortunate enough,
you awoke in the verdant green
of the glowing Elysian Fields,
a place where the virtuous and heroic went.
But most mortals at the end of a war
came to the Asphodel Meadows.
War brought a great influx of lost souls.
I watched them, hidden away in the mists.
The last time there was a war on Earth,
I tried to count how many dead
awakened in the mists of these
quiet, grey meadows.
I learned quickly never to do that again.