who can not longer acknowledge
their pardons from the living,
for when the would-be recipients
should have received them but didn't.
Such apologies were never sent
because they carried too many caveats
and excuses that defended their would-be senders,
the state sponsors of injustice down the ages
for their pardons to be delivered on time.
Perhaps when one of the dead becomes famous
for their contribution to the modern life
posthumous honours will be heaped upon them.
Where the givers will be honouring their forbearers
more than the martyred dead, for the injustice.
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