The Past (My New Year's Eve Poem)

[Joyce Chandler]

The past should be fully embraced...
Because it can never be erased.
We should LEARN instead of moan...
From others' mistakes AND our own.

If we change our point of view...
It makes things easier to live through.
Teach our children to do the same...
And then, we'll be ahead of the game.

We should remember our soldiers & our Constitution.
Look back at the past BEFORE there's a new revolution.
We fought the British over too much control,
And now, this government is digging the same hole.

War has personal, global, and economical loss.
It teaches nothing by not seeing the true cost!
This New Year's Eve poem was written to be seen...
...Let's hope for a better world in 2013!

By: Joyce Lynn Chandler 12/31/2012 :)

[Bulldog 4]

That's a good poem, Joyce.  I think most of us here on this site can see very well the parallels between 1776 and 2013.  Many of us have fought wars before so for sure all of the veterans know the personal cost of war.  It is to their credit that they see what is coming and are willing to step forward yet again, some of us in what should be our golden retirement years.  I don't want to go to war.  But if it is my destiny for the new year I will be there.  May God bless America in 2013.