Changes

Changed am I from times now distant,

When days brought laughter's ring to ear

Of golden dawns and nights

Ten thousand stars gazed down too clear

Lost inside those shifting shadows

Danger lurking near each door

Festers now, those wounds untended

Another casualty of war

Gone the dreams that soared the heavens

Crashing hard too far from real

What are we when our compassion

Turns into a heart of steel

Cursed the hands that chose the killing

It matters not what banner flew

Feel the tears forever forming

When they asked `what did you do'

Though the truth is still a shelter

See the light shine on our deeds

In the darkness Satan laughing

For we are meeting all his needs

Sad that we will not remember,

Sadder still we will not learn

I for one will pay my penance

In that time when I will burn

© Russell Robinson

Delta Blue

Awarded 11/24/o7