The remembrance
was a time of flowers
each one seemed to wilt
as if in distress,
No tears my mother would say,
your father was a hero
he fought a holy war.

a holy war you say mother
I do not know
I do not remember him,
my father died in a foreign land
for what, I do not know,
all I know mother
is what you tell me
you see
I have no memories
to call my own.