Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

Silences in Empty Words

Some words rattle like old snakes
Some new born sound like the wind
Some like old skin just flake
As meanings change

Change is the challenge
Rich or poor, white or black
Given the fact that
There's no going back

Meaning or value
Weight or sorrow
It will never be like this
Tomorrow

So we blunder along
In rain and in snows
We sing a sad song
And suffer the blows

We look at our image
And sing to the mirror
And wonder by God
Who invented this terror

We did of course
It's so plain the see
That the source of the problem
Is just you and me.