Or from whom.

The neighbours' kids, who wake me
with the dntz! dntz! dntz! of a bounced ball.

They don't have the concept of time.

I gloat a little. I mourn
that day they'll see living is Pyrrhic.

A prison, in itself withheld.


When they ask me about you,
I don't tell them about having to

strain the heart for no good reason

again. I don't talk about
wisdom won (as if one ever could).

No, just as well, I don't quite see


what they mean when they say that
time flees,