Music: Fugue in F# Major.
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

The black will never turn to gray;
The blood will not congeal.
The violence is never through;
The past does not depart.

Time will merely make you whole,
Consuming what you are:
Part sufferer, part comforter,
Part victim, part new song;

Part mother of an angry soul,
Part child of despair,
Part witness and part conqueror
Of all that did you wrong.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.