Sunday, December 6, 2020

Monuments

I walked by the great stone monuments today

Engraved with the names of our dead -

Binders full of them - 

And I wondered

Do the builders of the monument think we will remember?

As if their names explain their sacrifice?

As if their sacrifice explains why they fought? 

As if they knew why they fought, before it was engraved?

And then I thought: 

Would they build a monument to us?

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