Commemorate

by Mary Kennedy

800 years of subjugation
100 years of liberation.
Still learning the lessons of history –
How easy we all forget.

Commemorate to remember
Time marches on and the seasons
change and so does life.
The opposite of birth being death.

Birth of a nation
Death of an ideology
800 years of subjugation
100 years of liberation.

Reproduced with kind permission of the author. Mary Kennedy is a member of the Fatima Poetry Vigilantes. This poem was composed in a Poetry as Commemoration workshop led by Catherine Ann Cullen in July 2022.