Anguish

Sometimes reading
An account of a battle
Or a campaign the anguish
Overwhelms one in sorrow
As the horror of war too
Real to objectively sort
And collate adds one
Detail too much to
Bear so you put
The report or
Book down
Gaze into
Space
Try
Not to
Set aside
What should
Be remembered
Stories of innocence
Sacrificed bravery
Inserted in some
Struggle like a
Coma military
Naval or air
Grammar
A blood
Tribute
Too poignant.
Online recently
I chance on a man
Testing a piano restored
He taps the scales but
Then plays waltzing
Matilda and the
Owen Stanley
Battle above
The clouds
Accounts
Come
Flooding
Back to me.
Will all this history
Be erased in an
Homage to
Critical
Race
Theory?