Being Old + 

It’s because you are so young⁠— + 

You do not understand. + 

But we are old + 

As the jungle trees + 

That bloomed forever, + 

Old as the forgotten rivers + 

That flowed into the earth. + 

Surely we know what you do not know: + 

Joy of living, + 

Uselessness of things. + 

You are too young to understand yet. + 

Build another skyscraper + 

Touching the stars. + 

We sit with our backs against a tree + 

And watch skyscrapers tumble + 

And stars forget. + 

Solomon built a temple + 

And it must have fallen down. + 

It isn’t here now. + 

We know some things, being old, + 

You do not understand. + 