Monuments in the Rain
Here is everything that stands
monuments in the cold rain
standing sentinel against hard time
and the cruel heavy weather
slowly wearing them down,
fading them in lost history
so that no-one who passes by
notices them at all.
Just another pile of heaped stones
passed by each ordinary day
with no significance to them
and nothing special about them
to make anyone glance across
to where they lie fallen
and to even wonder why
anyone ever took time
to mark that single place
in such a significant way.
Or to ever wonder about
what extraordinary event
would ever have prompted
such a powerful need for remembrance
and why no-one now passing by
can remember why it was built.
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