Limboland (Poetry)

I forget why I came here
what I said that I’ve done
my dreams for the future
have faded and gone

Those things I believed in
now baffle recall
ideas once important
don’t matter at all

The whole world is changing
or maybe it’s me
my heart feels unstable
turned wild as the sea

I watch the horizon
imagine I’m young
but a warning voice whispers
the end has begun

The silence is broken
some fool fired a gun
and death hands a medal
to each mother’s son

Here’s one for the graveyard
and one for the flame
no angels in heaven
not a soul left to blame

The gods of all nations
(too many to name)
won’t help us — I really
don’t know why I came

Men searching for answers
find there is no proof
it’s all been for nothing
and nothing’s the truth