Rememberers

The world needs rememberers

To tell us once again

Of stories some time ago

So that we can send our roots down deep

In the past we do not know

Of fishing and cooking and games once played

Of first steps early taken

Of crops and struggles and fears and pain

And making it through somehow

By remembering those who came before

Whose labours and laughter had served them well

That we might remember them now

We all need rememberers 

That we might finally know

From where we've come

And who we are 

And the way that we should go.