GENERATIONS Copyright (C) 1997 by Not Nice Music
II. A COLLECTION OF OBSCURITY by Edwin M. Drogin

11. Climb

climb to a limbless lifelong tree
that swells with a meaning yet to be
And sends Brown branches thrusting high
To a timeless skimming, fluting by...

In your eons dance a flimsy folk
filling your priceless hours with a coursing joke
And signing away a sands curse in a narrow way
for the waste of sunset even on a brighter day.

Six or never ending numbers, no matter
never is harsh but cannot flatter
And adulation with nothing blameless here
is always the signal of a fameless fear.

Flee, but there is never a place to hide
And paths once narrow are growing far too wide.
Far too wide, for nations can now choose
a middle course too willing to confuse.

Climb on a craggy rock pierced way
to live, to love in a tearworn play
staged by the Gods for comic pity
Played by the dolls of a stacked block city.