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I was walking down the old farm track

when all the memories came flooding back

of the questions that we used to ask

like who would set themselves the task

of carving in stone a set of stairs

that seemed to us to lead nowhere

for at the top we looked all around

no signs of a building were ever found

and when we told our parents where

we’d been they’d say oh don’t go there

but they would never tell us why

and I’ll always wonder till I too die.

Never alighting

the swift will forego the branch

dashing in Spring air

a sneeze is a sign

that the fleas have done their work

blue is the sickness

Though science can explain the cause

there seems to be a nagging doubt,

a sense that we are now without

a guiding hand to Nature’s laws

that hidden factor, so we pause

and inwardly we contemplate

our lives, our place, even our fate

yet all the while as life goes on

although we know there’s something wrong

still argue and prevaricate.