Ruins and what are they? <br />A mass of stones <br /> Shattered battlements <br />Crumbling old temples <br /> Broken pottery in a museum <br />Roofless dwellings <br />From a very distant past…. <br />Or a recent attack. <br /> <br />Mortars and bombs <br />Short circuit time <br />Creating an instant past <br />For an un-rememberable future <br />And then there will always be the archaeologist <br />‘Oh they made a fire there and <br />War all around’. <br /> <br />‘They read books and burnt libraries…’ <br />Is what she will let you know <br />In that matter of fact objective kind of way... <br />Bits of memory interpreted for us. <br /> <br />But nothing will ever tell the story <br />From a broken home <br />Or a family that sizzled away in a rocket attack <br />Or just vanished with the grenade…. <br />Now leave it to the historians <br />To mop all that up …. <br />They do it all the time.<br /><br />uday balakrishnan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragments-5/
