Friday Poems: "Let us remember" and "Guilt"

Let us remember

Let us remember

The living

Overlooked as we amass

The dead

 

And assign them a value

Richer than dollars

Shapelier than gravestones

 

More memorable than

Whatever it is

We drop off to sleep

 

Forgetting

 

6/30-7/4/10

 

 

Guilt

How painful

Not to have suffered

 

Left in comfort

To seethe with resentment

 

Watching the bodies

Of those oh so fortunate

 

Sufferers

Float by

 

7/4/10

 

Copyright 2010 by Maurice Leiter

Posted with permission