Today is the day. To yesterday, pay no mind. Soon it will be night When darkness rules things. Whose corpse falls in the street, left For buzzards to find?
Is it yours they'll find? No. It won’t be yours to-day. Leave for god what’s left. Mercy? pay no mind. You’ll find justice in the things You will take to-night.
Soon it will be night With a cloudy sky. You’ll find Darkness will rule things, Till the coming day. To the sirens, pay no mind. They have no song left.
Burn what they have left To the ground. Light up the night. Don’t pay any mind To secrets they find. They’ll be back at work some-day Soon, and forget things.
And someday soon, things Will be back like when we left. Today’s not the day; Soon it will be night. At dawn, corpses they will find; Mercy? pay no mind.
Mercy? pay no mind. Go! Find justice in their things! Take what you can find! Burn what they have left To the ground! Light up the night! Till the coming day,
Pay no mind; what’s left Are things to be had to-night, Till the coming day!
This is a sestina made up of six pairs of haikus, and a single haiku at the envoi.