lament for two

downwind of trouble
on a parallel course
i see all their problems
and consider the source.

a phony facade
erected on dreams
the stones crumbledown
and she silently screams.

half-started plans
without strong demands
a fantasy lost
for talented hands.

tumbledown gone
in the wink of an eye
two birds of bright colors
in a mockery sky.

blown to the cosmos
on jealousy's tongue
love flies away
as if it were flung.

October 1979