Lest we shall forget

remembering 6 Aug 1945

This is why history is still relevant and important, flawed though it may be.
Technical skills are often emphasized in our modern society-for livelihood
But knowing where humanity has been in the past is perhaps essential for our personhood
All of humanity's wrong turns, highway, cul de sacs, tiny streets, dirt track.
Where we have walked, drove, sailed and flew- the distance and the time
The changes and the repetitions.
Lessons we have learnt and forgotten.
People who killed and were killed
all turned to dust
They who have seen, who have heard
in time, all turned to ashes.
Time. will smoothen even those names carved in tombstones
and perhaps make the words of history ring empty like tales.
Closing your eyes on the past is being blind to the present.
May we see. Lest we shall forget.