Burial Mound

It stood in the middle of the park,
         literally buried under tons of earth.

Children played games on it in the summer,
         ignorant of the history beneath their feet.

A railway line ran under it,
         through a tunnel.
It had been used
         for a shelter from the bombing during the War.

Two lots of history.

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Below the railway was a maze of rooms and corridors

stocked,
         like the mound,
                   with commodities for use in the afterlife.

Food and tools.

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When the bomb broke through the defences,

the villagers ran and imprisoned themselves
         in their underground corridors

where the poison in the air couldn't reach them.

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Now there are two burial chambers,

an upper one

and a lower one.

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Only,

the corpses in the lower one are

still alive.