What’s Been Lost
Charlie Looker
Deeds of rage, total deeds
Fallen from what? What’s been lost?
Bloodless life, honorless
Tethered to no earth and tethered to no sky
What’s been lost?
Singer, singer, sing in a world without a hero
Singer, singer, sing in a world without the gods
Draw breath…
Prayer, prayer, pray in a world with nothing higher
Prayer, prayer, praying a merely human love
Draw breath…
Fighter, fighter, fighting, with nothing he would die for
Fallen, fallen poem, the history of men
Cano, cano, cano, virumque arma cano
Principium non vidi
I only caught the end
Draw breath