If I were a swan
I'd be gone,*
my son, in his suffering,
sang,
long ago.
In memory,
down on the river,
a white swan glides,
bent neck, folded wing,
her mirror image
floating under her
on a river full
of sky and puffy clouds.
Still here, still suffering,
is my son,
who has forgotten
how to sing.
In memory,
that swan
is going
going
gone.
*Lyrics from the song by Pink Floyd