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

26. Untitled

Between a star and sand
The hapless ravages of land
In a shrinking cell of blood,
The tide appeasing flood.

Sing in a willow swayed note
The yearning pitted throat
Of a time seared dawn.
Let sons stifle a yawn.

In an eerie way, beauty died.
Mellow redwoods sighed
and beauty went this way.
In the violent tendrils of a fading day.

Cry out in a scape of deathly still
Exerting the force of an erring will.
No bringing back the lost and fled
The vain resurrection of the dead.