Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	Memory
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	When the last veterans die Memory ends and history begins, At once, overnight, legend thickens And truth thins. Day before yesterday someone could say “We went there, we did that, it was so.” And his friend “Hold on, you’re wrong about that bit, Remember? No, no!” But today academics move in With research teams and grants, An angle, a theory, a bee in a bonnet; The picture slants. Yet the opera stage never waits long For the songs memory sings; In a million maternity wards new veterans Wail in the wings. Undated