Evidence

Strewn before us

was evidence of a kind

you wouldn’t wish to see

lying about

for young historians

of the future to find

Apparently hidden

but willing to be revealed

in those texts

you dog-eared eagerly

as a student

and vandalised

with note after note

in ballpoint pen

telling of your dates

and their times places and names

and memories of what

the sky was like that day

knowledge too cold

to be used

against you now

old man

                 Grant Duncan 24.4.13