No Nearer
Time is passing:
Tomorrow is no nearer.
Time is passing:
Today is very long.
Over the unquiet earth, the great fire flows.
Over our day and night, the stars have fallen.
Up the avenues of earth, the soldiers’ feet come
And the soldiers’ laugh and the soldiers’ cry
And the soldiers’ world becomes the day.
Ever present over this once fertile ground the wind
And the wind’s way and wind’s word
To this land now dying whispers
This message of the wind ever present:
Time is passing: tomorrow is no nearer.
Out of the jungle the tiger driven and the lion.
Out of the swamp the crane and the duck gone.