Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Rerise

What if the Confederacy
Had won the Civil War back then?
Would there still be slavery?
Would the churches call it a sin?
What ifs about the Civil War
Still dance about in present minds.
Reenactments of blood and gore
Are still a part of need that binds.
The now with hauntings of that past
Recordings of the points of view,
No one's experience does last
Of that real time and living through.

The Civil War, long past and gone?
No, Virginia, the war goes on.