Requiem on a Friday Afternoon

Requiem on a Friday Afternoon

Requiem for the masses
Requiem for a dream
And why remember what
we might have been,
who we were in our minds
back then?
How the change parade eroded
while blazing bombs exploded
grasping all we’d ever known
into shards and pain.
Did we gain? Did anyone gain
an iota of grain or water or wine
an aeon more time
to cry in, to more slowly die?
Why hold our trust in
a past that betrayed us?
If no future is nigh
we can still look to the sky
to the stars
to dream.