Is it an act of surrender or retreat (at best)
to put on The Dark Side Of The Moon,
to disappear into the comfort of Us and
Them and all the rest from decades ago?
It may be.
And even now it may be too late:
perhaps it always was
and the suggestion we might meet again
on the dark side of the moon was,
then and now,
just another adolescent fantasy;
an idea one could never escape,
not even in this dismal old age
when the answer is only too clear.
