first words

a meeting graven deep in the recall

so scents and colours you cannot repress

the place the time all seem to coalesce

the heat was summer but the season fall

and from this distance no detail is small

since paths were crossed and cannot now regress

back out of meaning life itself must bless

what we have been and forbid us to bawl

now roads will take us far but not so far

that voices cannot take us back in time

to where the light first taught us how to touch

our minds to plastic shapes that had no scar

before to hope was made a sort of crime

and any knowledge had become too much

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alarums and incursions

we miss the mark by blaming modern haste

for all the losses that the old declare

since time's the one thing that we cannot waste

 

why bother waiting when the one abased

will be revenged when none is left to care

we miss the mark by blaming modern taste

 

instead of noting that the old displaced

was most unkind and never was quite fair

since time's the one thing that we cannot waste

 

you ought to leave at once before the taste

of anger drives our guardians all spare

we miss  the mark by blaming modern taste

 

for those disasters that our kind have faced

the dirty magics came on unaware

since time's the one thing that we cannot waste

 

burning our feet showing our gems were paste

leaving behind only a haze in air

we miss the mark by blaming modern haste

since time's the one thing that we cannot waste