Remember?

Posted on 2019-06-26 by Bartholomew Barker

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Remember?

Remember when we fought Nazis
instead of defending them?

Remember when we liberated concentration camps
instead of building them?

Remember when we welcomed refugee children
instead of jailing them?

The greatest generation is dying
and their grandchildren have become
the very evil they once saved us from.

(From this week’s Monday Poetry Prompt and current events.)

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.

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