My Poppy Laden

Remembrance Day is about more than the people we know, or our ancestors. It is about every man or woman who served, every loss, and every lesson learned. I cannot know every soldier, every conflict or every horror, but my poppy does; it represents all of it. The tiny red flower is heavy with the weight of all it knows. I wear it in hopes that it won't have to get any heavier.

My Poppy Laden

© 2011 Arlene Somerton Smith

Tho' whisper-light, the flower over my heart weighs heavy,
laden with its symbolism.