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Danny Draper - Menin Gate Commemoration 28 December 2011

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8: 00 pm: <br />The gate closed to mundane daily comings and goings, <br />Those gathered fidgeted with small talk in anticipation <br />Names in precisely incised rolls clothed cavernous walls for <br />Those extinguished, expunged from the ordinary, their <br />Wasted blood in nearby fields long since leached away <br />And the vintage war with horses and wagons <br />Gas and brittle and unreliable machines <br /> as good as ancient history from a distant millennia. <br /> <br />A mixed crowd fell silent beneath Menin Gate, <br /> the Last Post reverberated in crisp night air <br />Solemn peace connected cultures <br />A new paradigm away from religion and ideology, <br />Secular with smudged borders where <br />Nationalism and expansionism have no currency <br />Where those once connected only in death <br />Are interconnected globally by trade and friendship, <br />While governments guard borders and self-interest <br />Driven by the old entrenched paradigms, <br />The people build and enmesh humanity <br />Progress change by the common good <br />Under global markets where business is online <br />Freely conducted nowhere but everywhere instantly <br />And social media builds and webs a global community, <br />People move around the world by need or choice and <br /> nationality remains as a passé concept or <br />A nod to roots or origin, <br />Or consequence of geography, a <br /> perfunctory necessity for planning, <br />Cultures blend through friendship and knowledge, <br />Old boundaries and old hatreds, <br />Old contrivances of whipped up <br />Xenophobic stereotypes and scape goats <br />Seem ever more meaningless <br /> and it's seeds increasingly sterile. <br />Exploitation is now market driven <br />But will pass by the peoples’ will. <br /> <br />Those that gave and later forgave <br />were the essence for today’s reality, <br />Known and unknown in the fertile Earth, they <br /> lay at rest, assured in our memory.<br /><br />Danny Draper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/menin-gate-commemoration-28-december-2011/

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