Saturday, 22 January 2011

ancestors

They knew flowers’ names

And used words that we no longer use any more

Words that we never heard before

Pitched and falling

Singing archaically and calling to us

In a way that we don’t feel called by any more.


We’ve gone on,

Left fields and trees behind

Left moments that filled spaces

And lived like silence, we’ve

Squeezed out silent spaces

And built our homes on hardened science

Made our highways out of untied ties

To drive a lighted terror

Deep into the endless night.

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