Slow Fade

What did you do
when the future was dying?
I watched the shadows fall like decay
across newspapers and streets
that had never held the truth.
They were all soaked in petrol.
one match and they'd go up.

What did you do
when the future was dving?
I joined a self-help group
to improve my relationships,
talked through my family history,
got a long-term prescription
to stop me harming myself.

"nal did you do
when the future was dying?
I deconstructed the innocent.
found them compromised like me.
strange bedtellows. not my kind.
I burned their passports in my head
and told myself, nobody belongs.

What dha vou do
when the future was dving?
I marched with the others.
The papers dismissed us
as living in another world.
They said the future was a criminal
and by then, I couldn t disagree.