When A Man Builds A Monument

[PoorMonger]

When a man builds a monument
He wants you to remember it.
When a state sanctions one
They want their version of events
To ring with some sense of officialdom.
Interested parties will whisper in low tones
Of high minded goals.
Education and commemoration ;
(erected for your edification)
Carved from granite,
Or cast and poured in bronze
The medium is aesthetic.
A malleable thing -
To please or trick the eye.
Interpretation then
Is left to you and I.
For the audiences' power
Grows every hour
As the evidence of history
Passes us by -
If we do more to remember it
Than build another monument.

[PoorMonger]

1. An old one of mine

Though it felt timely