Memorial Day at Battery Park

Shells of men

Swept by wind

Utter memories

Drowned by whirling

Blades of warships

Turned to tourist

Trips around the

Tip of ancient toil

Remembering the lost

Lives forfeited to

Unending notions

Of hoary honor

Masking the horror

Of man’s inhumanity

 

Gerald Harris

May 26, 2013