Politics of Memory

History books rewritten, pages turned, truths overturned. Past reconstructed. Memories are planted like seeds, carefully cultivated. Reality harvested. Leaders cast long shadows, dark spots conveniently erased. Selective illumination. Monuments rise and fall, stone faces weather time. Legacies carved in flux. Archives are sealed tight, skeletons locked in national closets. Dust settles on truth. Oral traditions whisper voices echo through generations. Unwritten resistance. Media spins its web, catching minds in sticky narratives. Information trapped. Textbooks sanitised, rough edges smoothed away. Comfortable fictions. Anniversaries observed, some celebrated, others buried. Time's biased march. Nostalgia is a rose-tinted lens, focusing on the golden ages. Present found wanting. Trauma is passed down, And cellular memory encoded. Inherited burdens. Collective amnesia spreads, Convenient forgetfulness is contagious. Society's blind spots. Memory becomes a battlefield, mind's eye the spoils of war. Consciousness colonised. Yet, truth persists, stubborn seeds in concrete cracks. Remembrance rebels.