Revisionist History
Listen to poem:
Lines of ancestry
and musty records
feature fractured glimpses
of times long gone --
but we deem that we gain
some understanding, some insight,
some feeling
for our predecessors.
Those histories we
think we know
are never true.
We choose from many options,
all skewed by a plethora
of factors that suit
a current bias, and we bend
and blend and fabricate
imaginary
pasts.
Copyright © Leo Larry Amadore | Year Posted 2017
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