Alec Waugh
Rubble
We may fill the daytime with friendship
And laughter and song;
But however the laughter may trip
And the words break in song
On a loved one’s lip;
And however gaily the road may bend
Into the sky,
It must come to this in the end,
That we stand
And watch the last friend
Turn with a half-felt sigh
And a wave of the hand;
And silence is over the day,
Shadows fall,
And our happiness crumbles away
Like a wall
That nobody cares for,
That falls stone by stone
Till its grandeur is rubble once more,
And we are alone.
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