Red roses rotting and leaves falling off trees,
(pitter-pattering on the ground)
And men performing their assigned tasks.
(Speak to me and tell me I am alive.)
Child in a movie house, dark eastern face.
(Am I dead?)
Red rose beneath fallen leaves disintegrate!
Integrity no longer integrate!
(Help me, I’m a fallen man.)
There was a time when the wind blew clean.