Tiresias to Creon

To David Hockney

It is wrong, for us - the old -

to continue

when the young die

and are lowered to the soil

to nurture it

when we, with a limp

go to face new days

etching them in our

shrinking brains

when the Earth,

their second womb

makes them a womb

for its small beings.

Cease, old man -

the tombs are ready...

17.06.2016