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The creaking silence of age

Echoes through the streets

Sounds like old wooden floors under heavy feet

All of the children once running around have evacuated

Or maybe they just disappeared

Where have all the children gone?

Just yesterday they were tying ribbons in trees

And swinging from the branches

They were leaping over coals and swooning at anything

Where have all the children gone?

Those of us who remain

Wander around like abandoned children in shopping malls

Where have all the children gone?

Maybe this is just a dream

Maybe we are sleeping in rooms filled with metal shelves

If we put our ears to those shelves

They will tell us stories of how they were emptied

Emptied by the fingers of fathers

Emptied into the flesh of their sons and daughters

Where have all the children gone?

We hope they’re hiding

We hope they’re playing a game

But we know this is really happening

Where have all the children gone?

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