"A Canadian Remembers"

A CANADIAN REMEMBERS

by Valerie Kegel, 1983

I remember years ago...
When I was just a boy
I remember...
A war
I remember...
A present
A chocolate bar
I remember...
Orange
Forbidden orange
Armbands, hankies, carrots
I remember...
A big smiling Canadian
Convoy trucks
Fleeing Germans
Stench of burning straw
I remember...
FREEDOM

Six years later
When I needed space
When I had to leave home
I remembered...
Soldiers who died for me
Canadians
Canada
I would go to Canada

Today
I own a business
I have a family
I prosper
In Canada
And...I remember

(Awarded first prize in the 1983 Literary Composition Contest [Category 1 - Poem] sponsored by the Ontario Command of the Royal Canadian Legion.)

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