November 29, 2017

Nineteen-Eighty-Four

(Plus Thirty-Three)

our history is being eradicated

edited, softened and updated

the map of the road we walked

no more points to where we were

if once we who remember forget

will we be who we are anymore

or an empty people with no past

but what we’re told it shouldn’t be

blankly staring at a world gone by

our reconciliation is noble on its face

our past has at times been shameful

(although some was merely context)

yet how can our progress be measured

if we can no more recall who we were

After some of Mr. Trudeau’s recent acts