Pandora's Lullaby

So You Hugged the Globe

Now It's Whirling Too Fast

I Really Got no Hope to Hang On to the Past

The Train Has Departed, the Toxins Have Started

To Announce That None Will Last

I Cower in the Gutter of a World That's Not So Near

And I Listen to Their Mutters That Are Spinning Through the Air

The Words Unspoken, the Promises Broken

And the Ones Who Really Care

I'm the Watcher of the Scene

I See Our Shadows On the Screen

And When the Subway Brakes to Preserve Some Suicidal Bee

I Stop to Breathe For a While

Maybe It Was Me

This Is the World Gliding By

Like the Driftwood Beams

On a Lifetime's Stream

The Instant Fundamental Sky For Pandora's Lullaby

I See Distorted Faces Coined Like Gold

And in Their Wrinkles Programs That Commercial Gurus Told

A Watermark Against a Spark

Umbrellas That They Hold

I'm Gliding in the Distance and Watch the World Go By

An Orbit Full of Questions, a Perforated Sky

But I Just Sit and Wonder a Bit That They Never Wonder Why