The Accumulation of Loss

Do you remember our sadness in the park?

Do you remember what it used to be like?

Now we are hard-skinned and turned away

And in our silences we watch how anger exists

And in our findings we become lost

So it will be, in aging bodies we will crumble

And our heroes of the past are grown out

The magic is lost

And my happiness contained

Is pointless without ones to share with

Do you remember our social disregard?

Do you remember what it will never be like again?

Once happy in the dark

Now in the darkness all left to remember

So I loved and once laughed at my desire

To “Never love like this again”

Dreaming of fields and upside-down skies

Running with scissors, crying together

And in those days, God knew us all

So we were always found out, parents or else

In joining up, in kneeling pains

We are now silent and careful

All shrieking is in fear, no loss of patience

So childhood was once excellent

And adolesence filled with love

Now we are adults

And life is filling up with loss.