Time passes
And men fall down
Passing the torch
And women fall.
Reaching for the stars
And children fall down.
This is the truth,
Our raison d'etre,
Then we fall down.
It isn't complicated,
Clear as a bell,
We grasp at moonbeams
And then we fall.
From time immemorial
It's been done before.
We do what we have always done:
We learn to tie shoes,
We learn to fight war,
We build tall buildings,
We sing a song
And then
We all fall down.
The only thing that means a damn
Is not our footprints in the sand.
It's not our children.
Not the ladder climbed.
It's soul and compassion
And loving kindness shared.
Then we fall
Down.
