WE ARE STILL HERE AND WAITING TOO

138. WE ARE STILL HERE AND WAITING TOO:

...And then the clock ticks on and we wither as we watch what passes - thirteen old men sitting silently in some fulcrum of a parkside lawn and each of them staring out at something they may see and I turn and say "but I knew you just yesterday when you all were young" and they look back at me and silently seem to be processing something other than what I've said "memories are like this - we have no right to be this old and how did we get to be 84 anyway and why - these are the questions which keep us now as we look back upon all that which has passed" and I realized they were each lost in reveries of their own - with impatience and sadness and confusion too all mixed in as I understood the terrible cataclysm that living in this world really is - some have gone before us purporting to be wiser and have cut off the line that connects but WE are still here and waiting too.