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Our Fathers Are Gone

By Ivor W. Hartmann

 

Our fathers are gone

Lost to the abysmal sea

Swirling in a sargasso of plastic

 

Our mothers are silent

Lassitude wreathed

And buried them deep

 

Our sisters are mad

They maunder only to the past

One they can’t remember

 

Our brothers are running

Though they know not

From what they run or where to

 

Our children refuse to be born

Their glares of rebuke

Keep us all in labour