All Quiet on the news front
for June 7, 2021
H. W. Bryce
All is quiet on the airwaves
Not a word of news of the day
Nothing about the big event
On this anniversary day,
An event that turned the world around,
The big event that, in fact,
Saved the world from itself,
From ourselves, us, we, the Humans,
The so-called adults in the animal kingdom.
Lest we forget? JUNE 6, 1942.
We have indeed forgot
Forgot the war to end all wars
Forgot the entire WWII
Forgot the vets, forgot the dead
Forgot the women they wed
Forget D-Day? How careless
That you/we have lost the thread of
Our mutual history, forgot the hate
That ruled then – do we still remember
The concept of hate today? Maybe. Little
Wars keep happening.
Are we really so busy navel gazing that
We have lost our memory, our link to
Actual progress, as Humans? Are we
So stuck on ourselves that we have broken
The ribbon from there to here? Are we
Really willing to repeat the spectacle?
We SAY not, but do we remember?
Alas, D-Day. Sadly forgot. Not a word
On the news before today, today, so most
Certainly, not tomorrow. Whole generations
Growing up without the knowledge of how
Evil Humans can be? Forgot that to forget
Your history, you are destined to repeat it?
Lest we forget.
Alas.
We appear to have forgot.
For all is quiet on the news front.
Another tradition has died.
A victim fallen to progress,
Another break in the chain of faith of men.
And we say Rest in Peace
To the tomb of the unknown soldier.
Alas.
There was no news today.
No remembrance.
So sorry.
This is Herbert Leslie Bryce
My Dad
