Remember 

Intro:

Words fail. Sometimes culture fails first. Remember is a requiem for poetic outrage and a warning bell for the modern poet — that when the scaffolds of language collapse, the Seer’s light must rise.

• When hollow art smiles, vultures feast.

• Decay enters on the wings of false verse — crafted for applause, but born from emptiness.

• Remember confronts that decay: artists bereft of sincerity; mobs who want art to entertain, deceive, consume.

• The Seer — glowing, seated at the center — is not a messiah. He is the poet who refuses to kneel.

Excerpt:

“Poetry of nothing / Made to seem as something…”

This line cuts deeper than any blade.

Closing:

Let the poets who are silenced by convenience tremble in the shadow of Remember. There is a reckoning in verse, and in truth.

Literary Analysis (Critical Voice)

• Form & Structure: A free-verse epic, cascading in repeating refrains — “Remember, remember”— that echo like alarms.

• Imagery: Vultures, broken scrolls, false hope. A battlefield of art.

• Voice: Assertive, prophetic; every line is a seer’s declaration.

• Theme: Myth, honesty, downfall of empty artistry, resistance.

• Impact: A rallying cry for those who preserve poetry’s sacred duty: to bear truth, not masks.

 Read the full blog post + analysis:   https://alkonda.com/2025/08/20/remember-when-hope-was-born-to-betray/