faded from the winter

"What makes the voice pathetic

is that it doesn't know

what kind of people it's reaching.

Us.

No one hears it, except us.

This Age wanted heroes.

It got us instead:

carefully constructed, but

immobile.

Subtle but,

unfit

to take up

the burden of the times.

It happens.

A whole generation of washouts.

History says stand up,

and we totter and collapse,

weeping, moved, but not

sufficient."

- Tony Kushner, A Bright Room Called Day

"A whole generation of washouts."

I mean, maybe.

But the hope outweighs the tragedy;

It has to, or we perish.