Lest We Forget to Remember

Lest We Forget to Remember

How can we remember?

That long time ago

decades before our birth

We only see the grainy, greyed images

of soldiers marching, fighting, dying

and walking skeletons

of POW's and the Final Solution

A mushroom cloud

shocking the world into uneasy peace

But it has not ended

Ongoing battles erupt on our streets

Violence confronts us

 CNN live minute by minute

So we mute the sound

detach from the images

tune out the pain