Anxiety in Mosaic

THE COMING OF SCARLET DAYS

49 Globalisation performs at the circus. Against my will I shall be the rapt spectator While the juggler wins And the magician carries the day Far from me Like an oddment Swept away by rainwater THE COMING OF SCARLET DAYS In witness I stand Like a deity; Guest of honour at the christening of moments; The sunny moments of fleeting eras And I grant you These moments go By a western name; These moments shown here Right here… On the charted pedigree of Time In witness I stand Like a goddess; Guest of honour at the naming ceremony of days; The rainy days of rushing epochs And I warrant you These days right here Are called Washington; These days shown here, Right here… On the charted pedigree of Time 50 But there, on the horizon of eternity’s restlessness There, where the sea meets skies At once cloudy and fair I see them slowly come; the scarlet days of The turning of tides, Days with the freshness of hatchlings; Fresh scarlet days Soon to be shown… There, somewhere On the uncharted pedigree of Time I see them slowly come: Fresh scarlet days Answering to names Stranger than western Stranger than Washington ...