CHILDREN OF OUR TIME

CHILDREN OF OUR TIME
“Like the Grateful Dead”
              “HAIR” (1979)

Children of our time
that time
             run its course
we
run our course (well,
almost)

but not before
we made our mark,
         went discovering, opened
up, had our fun
had the hair
              (mine all
gone)

whatever it was
    love, poetry, sex, politics,
community, cosmos, peace,
dope (and more
love
wherever possible)

we tried to
rock with it, be like stars,

Children of our time, whatever
they say today
(so fallen
     from grace flat on
their faces)

nothing like us
they just don’t make
                  our like
anymore.