We came for all mankind
To help build a new world
We arrived on the first of never
Sometime in December

We came to end

Today, not one will heed the gun;
No cause will be upheld.
For silence owns a battlefield,
Among charred flesh and shells.

Remember us


I stared at the red, the blue, the white.
At the wind ridden cloth that glistened in the morning light.
The dew

The photograph of Ellis Island

shows many faces

some frowning, some smiling.

Remember us, say the faces;

A collection of

Remember us when we are worn out battle scars,
Signaled by crosses on a graveyard overseas,
Or when you look from earth toward