Bulwark + 

You were the last bulwark of my dreams, + 

And now you, too, have tumbled down into the dust. + 

You, too, are no more than a broken lie. + 

Something + 

came between us + 

green and slimy + 

like sickly laughter + 

and a bowl was broken + 

from which + 

we could not drink thereafter + 

and we turned around + 

and threw + 

the shattered bits + 

upon the ground + 

and went our separate ways + 

into the town + 

and a clock + 

somewhere in a tower + 

boomed out slowly + 

hour after hour + 

a great cracked + 

broken sound. + 

You were the last bulwark of my dreams, + 

And now you, too, have tumbled down. + 