I don't know the absence of light or dark There is only the chirp of the alley way clerk Who serves you your tea and crumpet cakes Lined with medallions of neon colors That break when you touch them Can it be the final hour is upon us? As these orange fragments of yesteryear Become old and forgotten and inhumane I never was young I never was old I am what I am Never done what I was told Though these were the tellings of man and man's timely rule And there were many mysteries within that It is a funny thing When one believes they need to go to school Is it the hour or the time or the society which breeds this? Is it the oranges and the hot milk and the comfort of the bed? Is it the promises made in between black walls, That makes us do things that we never would have said? Funny how these words shape our minds And yet our actions are nothing at all Funny how funny a funny man can be Until the funny man drops His supposed ball O' The great fall A fast glance across like a lance Which pierces my mind like a flash As if love vanished everywhere and not just from me But from everybody