Get Your Premium Membership

Read Voice From The Past Poems Online

 

A Voice From the Past

A voice From the Past 

My childhood friend rang me he hadn’t been ringing me for some time
 he is the shy type and only ring when he has been drinking and judging 
by his infrequency of calls he is rather abstinent. He spoke of the time
he time of our boyhood when found, in a warehouse, Nazi uniforms and 
put them on marching around the streets shouting “Hail Hitler” But this 
in 1947 a time when children were given some room. If a child behaved
 something like that today, now that time is so very intolerant we would 
grow up not getting a job because of our childhoods’ criminal past. 
Referring to Nazism is a crime and it doesn’t matter how old you were at 
the time. He wants to visit me and I have told him that’s ok, yet I hope he 
will not come; our childhood was eons ago and I cannot by mere words 
bring him the magic he wants to hear of our infancy that in the end was
rather banal and full of dreams of what to do when we’re adults.

Copyright © Jan Oskar Hansen




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry