A trip to the Past

I travelled last night to the Past
into the ruins of the Old Castle
I saw soldiers and beggars inside the dump tunnels
and felt their moans running deep into
my veins

Two hundred years ago, three thousand-odd Englishmen
spent more than six months there. Their families
cried over the night,
and last night, the ghost of an eighty century woman
cried along the visitors
my husband, oh, my husband...!

I travelled last night to the Past
but had to come back early
as Present was crying me as a twenty-one century
husband