In That Time by Daniel H. Weiss
Author:Daniel H. Weiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-11-04T16:00:00+00:00
PART TWO
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, not the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
—FROM “FOR THE FALLEN,”
by Laurence Binyon, 1914
Chapter 5
LEFT BEHIND
They woke me this morning
to tell me my brother had been killed in battle.
Yet in the garden
a new rose, with moist petals uncurling, blooms on the bush.
And I am alive,
still breathing the fragrance of roses and dung,
eating, praying, and sleeping.
When can I break my long silence?
When can I speak the unuttered words that are choking me?
—THICH NHAT HANH, “Peace”1
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