Thank you to Guy Farmer for publishing "Museum" on his website, Best Poetry: Contemporary Poetry Online.

https://www.bestpoetry.website

Museum

To the casual eye,

a roomful of old, dusty objects,

scrolls of great words

containing broken promises,

the hardest days of time captured,

man’s progress built one culture at a time.

And while the present stands full

of promise and difficulty,

the past did send forth wings of hope,

some forgotten, some ignored.

And it’s good to embrace

the backstories of so many forgotten nights.

In this sea of iron, stone, wood, and fabric,

it’s amazing to see

how beautifully imperfect we are.