The time we knew nothing about The promises made, hidden from doubt The things we were told before we were old Our weakness foretold our losses yet to come They herded us up to wait in a line None of us noted the passage of time A book with a page on the cruelty of age And the wars they would wage in the name of our unhappy sons Our friends have not abandoned us yet Sisters and Brothers! Decisions regret Of passion bereft when nothing is left But the emptiness that became the only thing we knew Last night, I woke from a shout The glow of the street light shone from without The dust of our dreams suspended in beams In the hollow place that once belonged to you