Then and Now 

 

In those damned days, 

I went in the dark, 

in torn shoes, 

and concealment. 

 

And here, 

sun does never shine, 

fields bleak and bare, 

an eternity of winter here. 

 

Yet now, 

the sun does show

the rain does fall.

 

Alas, 

away from this labyrinth.