What is our ignorance,
What is our guilt? All are exposed,
no one is safe. And where
is courage: the unanswered question?
Dumbly calling, deafly listening – that
in warming and drought,
discourages others,
encouraging doubt
and seeing what it’s about.
Who looks deep with shallow vision
accedes to mortality,
struggling to be
free and unable to be,
accepts its continuing.
So he who strongly feels,
changes. As birds cease songs,
he quiets himself for life
to come. Though he is captive
with unsupported efforts,
satisfaction is a lowly thing,
when only children sing
a few more years.