Forgotten

by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson — a poem card from Justes Mots

A meditation on death in war, where a single 'word' carries the power to pierce and destroy. Dickinson examines how the forgotten sacrifice of soldiers becomes eternal through collective memory, particularly on patriotic occasions. This reverential yet sorrowful work serves those honoring the war dead.

There is a word
Which bears a sword
Can pierce an armed man.
It hurls its barbed syllables,--
At once is mute again.
But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,…

Themes: sympathy · grief · reflection