Requiem For the Past
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[While going through old papers, I discovered the manuscript for this poem, dated 1981. I recall writing it, but I do not remember the circumstances. This is the first time the poem has been presented for reading to the public.]
Once could mend or move a cause
In search of bleeding sun
Pressed never for a need to pause
Until the thing was done.
They ill-afford to fight and yield
A life on holy principle
Or noble sacrifice to field
Before the young and sensible.
The bold and bitter sound the fear
In shot. What difference lies
Who cease to mourn and tear
While unmindfully the nation cries.
The yelps of altered discontent
Restraint propelled to faltered feet
Whose who pay in kind repent
That truth lies dead in sad defeat.
Copyright © L Milton Hankins | Year Posted 2021
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