Please tell me Lord

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Please tell me Lord, ‘cause you know it

Tell me Lord, because You know,

if still are  living our fathers

and where lie their spirits?

Where are the loves and the sighs

The ideas that illuminated steps

The power that shook

Thrones by the nations of the world?

And where the pleasures of the flesh

And the wealth of the globe?

Where the ancient human wisdom

That seemed boundless and eternal?

Where is now, that tender mother?

Is that all wasted away for the offspring?

And that hefty father

who seemed all-powerful?

Where are those carefree age games

And the long-awaited youth dreams?

No, no it cannot finish all

During our short life

And all disappear into Nothingness!