Memorial Day Ponderings

It is a day we pause to think
about a chain formed link by link
that binds us to the liberties
that God desires for all.

It is a day for looking back
at how the mourner’s dreaded black
maintains the colors that we love…
the red, the white and blue.

 

In cemeteries far and near

small flags at grave sites make it clear
that freedom’s price was freely paid
by those who spent their lives.

And so on this Memorial Day
we place a wreath and humbly pray
that these who died courageously
will not have died in vain.

By Greg Asimakoupoulos