Memories

Hello and happy day…
Remembrance Day (or Veterans’ Day, or Armistice Day) is just around the corner. We honour the heroism of all who have given sacrificially to secure and promote freedom in its fulness. In light of the current socio-political climate, I thought last evening, to compose a poem on ‘memories.’ Here is the initial draft.  I hope you will pause to jot down some of your thoughts on the topic.
Cheers... 
P.S.: Looking ahead, I am reminded of the need to invest mindfully in our youth - not via schooling, but sound education.


THE MEMORIES WE ARE MAKING
 
Throughout this season of remembrance
It is instructive to contemplate 
Not just recollections from old times
But the memories we now create
 
What will future generations think
About how we have chosen to live?
What will be the most distinct features
Whether positive or negative?
 
See, our world, full of great potential
Seems challenged in learning from the past
And regarding the present juncture
By and large, the ‘good guys’ finish last 
 
In this era of complexity
There’s great confusion all around 
With scant regard for differences
Bitter isms and schisms astound
 
Lo, falsity has intensified
And is limiting freedom through fear 
And threats initialized in pockets
Are becoming common everywhere
 
We have cast aside sound reasoning
And normalized nefarious ways
Here, as truth is weighed in the balance
One wonders what this history says
 
In spite of ourselves, we must unite
To nurture a world that will endure
Where memories we make show fairness
In how we treat the weak, and the poor
 
While we honour heroes of times past
Who gave all in the ultimate test
It is vital that we seize the day
And though hard, try to render our best
 
See, the memories we’re bequeathing
Must show our efforts were unbending 
Yes, in this struggle, we can’t forget 
The fight for freedom is unending 
 
David McAdam
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