Lorna

Call of the Sitar

Sit still and hear the sitar of the past

Its honeyed fingers sweetening the brain

Rousing dusty senses as we dance

It lit our fire.  Now relight our fire!

 

Bright clothes and dancing in the dark

And swaying to the Stones and Mama Cass

The ghostly arms of marijuana smoke

Reach out to tempt the present to fall back

 

Stony Now is losing to the past

Its present day is seen to put to waste

Our senses and the midnight mysteries

Of love and madnesses that we embraced

 

The barren Present has not proved itself

The promises it held did not take place

Our shriveled senses swell to recognize

The sitar\'s call back to the Garden\'s grace