Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks November 2014: Remembrance | Page 2

Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit

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s there anything as pretentious as speaking Latin? Perhaps
speaking Latin while wearing a monocle. We don’t have any
monocles, but, for anyone not born circa Julius Caesar, the phrase
above roughly translates as ‘Perhaps these things too shall be a
pleasure to look back upon one day.’
November is a month of Remembrance, and that’s what
we’ve themed this chapbook on. Remember Guy Fawkes.
Remember those we’ve left behind. Remember the First World
War. Remember, and, in remembering, never forget.
It’s easy to get bogged down and bummed out when we look
back to the past: Soldiers maimed and whipped from their mortal
coils; loved ones who never got to see another year; events which
could have changed history, yet didn’t.
It’s easy to get bogged down, but it’s important not to.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Look back, and be happy. For we are still here to remember.
Stanzas.