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Robert Lindner
Remembrance Day Poem
The Sea
“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles”
Hamlet by W. Shakespeare
Sometimes the thinking brain
Hurries and becomes like a hurricane
Of nervous energy
That may blow through a “Sea
Of troubles” like “To be
Or not to be.” It can drive minds insane
With fears that overtake
Their reason, and that may cause them to make
Poor choices with the goal
Of getting in control
Of their world. Though their role
Is only that of a dancing snowflake
In a blizzard of doubt
That can play with minds that worry about
Seas of troubles they may
Be in. Or Shakespeare’s play,
When tomorrow’s today,
And there was no yesterday to get out
Of because time goes on
And every moment is another dawn,
Another afterthought
In a universe caught
In that spin that is brought
About by forces, here today and gone
Like Yesterday, when all
Those troubles seemed so far away, as Paul
Sang, when I was young and
Was dancing, as the band
Played my tune, while I planned
My future steps on the floor of the ball
That is the earth that I
Am born to, by the lucky chance that my
Mother survived the sea
Of troubles history
Took her through to bring me
To life, when many that she knew would die
In the holocaust of
Hate that she survived to bring me her love.
And I found more, as time
Brought me the good luck I’m
Thankful for, as I climb
That great mountain that waits for me, above
The sea my mother crossed,
After a tempest, called the holocaust
Had passed into the past.
But that was in the last
Century, with a cast,
That was on the lost ship that was tempest tossed,
But it still found its way,
So, I can walk here on Remembrance Day,
Here, on the golden shore,
Beyond the Sea, once more
Thinking of times before
When troubles of today were far away.
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