PSALM OF REMEMBERANCE

Remembering, they say, is what makes us human. I think it may be forgetting that makes most of us human, too! Anyway, this is the month for remembering the past, and the people we've known, even if our memories can be very selective. .

1. Remembrance Sunday comes round once again:

we will remember them daily, so we say -

2. another charity day for tired giving:

or is it a national day for waving the flag?

3. We don't much recall the other, Kristallnacht:

but remembered this same week, starting the holocaust;

4. nor reverse remembrance, like Hiroshima:

the death and starving destruction we've doled out to others.

5. But I need to remember them all; stop the arms:

God help us work for peace as well as for charity.