You had all the same faces you had not long ago
They remind me of what we once had
And what I wish we could still know
Mother and Father, city and state
Even my beloved Gretchen has left me as of late
I spoke to Aristotle and he said all that is natural is subject to change
Because of its loyalty, Nietzsche gave the name “dog” to his pain
Whatever my school masters say, I can’t bear my family estranged,
Why, my Gretchen, why did you leave me?
Forever in love we were to be
My escape from familial discord, my comfort in the storm
But your own family needed you, and neglecting them you could not afford
Places once of gladness, now remain only sadness.
The family I had, the Gretchen I held, the town I once knew,
Only now makes me mad.
Pain accompanies every joy and inseparable as though weld,
What I once had is through.
Made me think of some people who have moved in and out of my life as well.