I REMEMBER! By Sebastian

I Remember!

Do you remember,

That day when it was rumored

That his wealth and prosperity

Was a conduit to his death,

Death the leveler?

Do you recall that moment?

When he lay in his trench box bed,

Only waiting for delivery to his grave,

As his sons, daughters, and wife drew near

To drop earth on him with melancholy?

Do you,

Recall that very day

When all mankind murmured their plea,

"Thou' innocent, he has departed?"

A day when his bloody kinsmen,

The bloodthirsty son tiptoed

To drag the sword across

The widow's choking throat?

Do you

Remember the one moment

Of not requiem and nostalgic cause,

That saw him as a fulfillment

Of mortal oath?

Do you really

Endeavor to reflect

On that day when

The widow's in-laws scrambled

To have their brother's belongings

As consolation and comfort?

Do you imagine

The storm that was

A convoy for the couriers,

Stumbling hither and thither,

To rest him in tranquility?

Do you surely recall

The full day when

Foreign condolences

Were the Emcee,

Today's four-wheel?

Though you did nothing,

Do you remember?

Do you recall

The day when hypocrisy

Became the soothing lullaby

By the deceased's brothers

To their nieces and nephews,

Who then wriggled like maggots

On decomposing waste?

Do you make a recap?

Of that red day when

No hymn comforted

The widow,

And no literature read

For consolation?

He left but a father,

And yes, it is my last glance

At him that I remember

In distress!

LABASS SEBASTIAN DEGRO.