This paper addresses how poetic mourning can reshape collective memory in post-conflict Sri Lanka emphasizing on a poetic cycle that revisits the Ellalan–Dutugemunu legend. Argument is such that justice is not found in conquest but in restraint, grief, and ethical remembrance. Drawing on social psychology, cultural sociology, and transitional justice, the analysis shows how dominant narratives often silence moral complexity and emotional truth. The poems do not reject cultural pride. Rather they invite a deeper form of remembrance that honors both victor and vanquished equally. Poetic symbols like the jasmine, the bowl, and the flame, the poetic cycle offers a quiet pedagogy that encourages reflection, empathy, and humility. This interdisciplinary reading suggests that poetry can serve as counter-memory, holding pride and sorrow in ethical tension. Slight improvement on existing triumphalist education and nationalist myth making view can improve inclusiveness. The paper proposes that poetics can avoid social psychological problems with a more compassionate way of remembering. In doing so, they offer not a revision of history but a restoration of its moral resonance.