We've lost them
Their smiling faces are worn and grim
Their natures swing from top to down ... to anywhere
- In space of time belying change
And, bewilderedly, we look and .... and sometimes, plead
- For what it is we are to do ... or they have done
- Receiving looks so strange..or worse, a quick
remembered laugh..a joke..a jab
- "lighten up..you're too heavy. I'm OK"
- Knowing they are not
- We've lost them
To the ice that chills their spines and numbs their
brains
- Removing them from everyday and giving transport far away
- To clouded no-care world ... to scary no-scare world
- Where we cannot follow
We know the wit, the quickness still prevails
For how long? ... before they're hollow
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- We've lost them
They bury noses in the deep, white sand that blinds them
- to our days
And from their mothers' teats, they're weaned
- To sucking on the pipes of death
They'll not spend an.hour in their old pursuits
- that tied them to the family tie
It seemed enough to please them for so long a time
-
- Their constant drive is for the god of snow
who occupies the day and sweeps the night away
- And runs them .. runs them.. into callous,c ynic
old-age minds...into primeval whores
It's not that they've lost their talent to perform
- their zeal to goal-achieve -
They've only turned another way ... to lower aims
- to baser conquests
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- We've lost them
- And not to any new or recent plague..Oh no!
The poison has been there for centuries..in plain view
- waiting to be eaten
and so, we ask..is that it ?... did we not? could we have?
Reasons be damned ... they are there and we are here
- ...... and we've lost
Not only them, but us, as well
- And, God, we must try to find them back
- before they die..beforrrre thheeyyy diiieee!!!
- Or we do ....... stop kidding me .... stop kidding you
- We've lost them .....
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