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Vietnam Memorial
Walking amongst babbling tour groups
And unkempt statuettes
Completely unprepared
for the sight before my eyes
for a sheer wall of names
carved into a hillside of rock
A slope leading d
o
w
n
a long hill, then
p again to the world of people
u
Trodding silently through
the graveyard of names
I spied one to recognize
Sharon Lane, a nurse, midst the quiet, beating
heart
of a billion people lay
entombed in granite, nothing but a title to recognize
her hopes
Who were they? the thousands
of nameless, f c l s s
a e e
people
Will we remember them?
In the future, the burning candleflame of dreams
Will we recall
A single appellation who in bravery lived
with courage died
Will their scrambl?d prescence
coexist with our
brief, clumsy footsteps?
I see a rose
placed by the foot of a column
Its leaves flushing, blushing, illuminating
names, roughly scrawled,
above its glowing petals.
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