"Seeking Some Silence"
(11-9-01)

Along the lonely lanes of life
I wander wearily and wonder
About all adventures yet to come.
Speeding and swerving down the street
I'm surrounded by a swarm of strangers
And sirens sound so streadily.
To escape every ecstatic expression
And avoid all annoying agrivations
Is something I seek with all my strength.
Surely I'm seeking some solace,
A switch from strain and strife
To total trance-like tranquility
Without one wrong to work through.
So long as steady social suffering
Abounds amidst all and atrophy sets in
I continue with courage through calamity
To struggle and seek some silence.