Results of a Restless Mind

Will we remember them?

We walk through this exhibit
Displaying the stories of the dead

Their memory lives in words and artefacts

In school children eager to escape the tight walls and endless quotes
So they can eat their lunch

In adults, whose Greats fought in the very war they read about

In teenagers, too privileged to understand that these men fought

Suffered

And died so they could stand in this room today

Firing pretend guns
Playing soldier
and texting their friends

How is it possible

To not understand

That we are alive

Because they are dead.