Times Have Gone and So Have The Tides

Times have gone and so have the tides,

The rivers  dried and new streams then flowed.

The trees have grown old, then probably perished,

And the new ones we see now have all grown.

Yet the fatherly sky over our heads remain,

The motherly soil beneath our feet is the same.

We have always been and are still human,

Different identifications under one name.

As is happiness simple to a child,

So was this knowledge to me.

But times have gone and so have the tides,

Things are no longer  as I used to see.

Perhaps here’s the time to grow up  now,

And add one more to all that have grown.

Indeed the rivers have now all dried,

And ever since blood has flowed. 

Copyright by Delilah Das