The past is...

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    The past is...

     They tell me the past is gone
    Left only to your memory
    And the words you etch
    On the cold unhielding ground,
    But I can't understand this
    Way of thinking things through
    Does not our history
    Make for a changed future?
    Can we not take hope
    In all the pain we've known
    To say never again
    Will any other feel this
    While I live and breath
    And am fit to interveen

    See I look at these people
    And examine their lives,
    The perfect family, money, love
    They never had to wonder
    Why daddy loved them
    Just a bit to much,
    Of if mum will remember
    The name she gave you
    After all her medication,
    They didnt make the meals
    Aged six and three quarters
    Nor did they run a house
    And set a table for three
    When the only one to eat was me,

    So I tell them the past
    Cannot be lost and the words
    I write will stay engraved
    To show me what life is
    Lest I forget and lose myself
    To vanity and everlasting shame.
    I know the value of existing
    And it's not as high
    As some suppose,
    In fact I'd dare to say
    That life and living
    Are eternal foes
    That a poet uses for
    Contradicting evalutionary prose
    Like one has meaning
    With the other,
    When really life is just
    An absence of death
    And living in understanding
    Pain and standing unmoved
    Humanity cut from you,
    Carved from stone

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    Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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