Where have they gone? Where have they gone? The frame
Has broken; proximity and distance
Alike. And wherefore are the stars so maimed
By the desires that shun Creation?
Road-bumps and pot-holes have all disappeared;
As has nature succumbed to dusty sleep.
All is levelled by the Digger who speared
The earth and then invoked the Devil’s reap.
Life lives in shadows; Death is a lighthouse
Which guides Morality and Virtue both.
The castle shrine has become a thatch-house;
The decrepit human upholds no oaths.
The Human Race among all else shall fail
For his soul is flimsy, offered up for sale.