Where Have the Lilies Gone?
Yesterday's tune plays
as radio speakeasy bootlegs
pirates like skull and crossbone
My child asks why wasn't she born
in the sixties
My father named Richard
is my lover's name
he lionhearted
was family king
is royal
was a common man
is was
The field of lilies
ambles in spring light
an epiphany of thought
speech action being
The flower children sing
of peace
love
Today's radio cacophony
howls of war
(I) my daughter shouts hell no
we won't go
Richard touches heart
to breast
I see my father
in his marble mausoleum
He vouched he fought
the war
to end all wars
He stopped the evil
madman
Richard kisses me
a doll who cries real
tears
The lilies unbound
resurrected
flutter in the field
God in Her Heaven
Peace on Earth
Ryfkah 2/28/03
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