copyright 2000
I NEVER CRIED
BUT IT SEEMED THE END OF LIFE ITSELF
THAT'S
WHAT I FELT
NOTHING,
JUST NUMB.
WATCHING
THE DREARY LONDON SPRINGTIME COME...
AND I
SAT BY YOUR FATHER'S BEDSIDE
EVERY
DAY
AND
WE TALKED ABOUT THE WAR
AND
WE GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER
IN THAT
WAY
AND
HE WOULD SAY -
LINA & JOHNNY
AND NEVER YIELD
UNTIL NOT GUNS BUT HEARTS
WOULD BEAT UPON THE FIELD
JOHNNY
OR SO WE THOUGHT.
WE KNEW WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE
AND SO, WE FOUGHT.
SO WE
FOUGHT OUR BATTLES
AND
WE FOUGHT OUR WAR.
SOMETIMES
IT SEEMED THE FIGHT
WAS
ALL WE HAD.
WAS
THE FIGHT WHAT WE WERE FIGHTING FOR?
BUT NOW
THAT'S DONE.
THE
WAR''S BEEN WON.
IN VICTORY,
WE'RE FINISHED.
AS VICTOR'S
NOW
WE SEEM
SOMEHOW
NOT
STRONGER, BUT DIMINISHED.
WE KNEW
OUR FOES
WE HAD
OUR FIGHT.
FOR
WHAT WAS JUST.
FOR
WHAT WAS RIGHT.
TO SPREAD
THE WEALTH,
TO STOP
THE BLIGHT -
TO CHANGE
THE WHOLE WORLD OVERNIGHT!
LINA
WE WHO WEREN'T RICH,
WE WHO WEREN'T LANDED ARISTOCRACY,
WE WHO WEREN'T DESCENDED FROM THE MEDICI.
LINA, JOHNNY & ALL
WE WHO TENDED THEIR VINES.
WE WHO HARVESTED THEIR VINEYARDS
AND TROD THEIR GRAPES TO WINE.
WE WHO WERE NEVER SATISFIED
WITH THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE.
WE WHO WAITED FOR SOME SIGN.
LINA
I DON''T THINK SO.
(Gertrude comes to take Johnny off in his wheelchair.)
LINA
'BETTER DEAN THAN RED'
BUT THAT'S WRONG.
JOHNNY & LINA
CIVILIZATION
IF CIVILIZATION
IS EVER TO LAST
FOR LONG.
