Ravenna 1

- based on Herman Hesse

 

I have also visited Ravenna

a little dead city

its churches in ruins

You can read about it in books

 

You visit it and take it in

Streets murky and wet

dumb for a thousand years

Over all grows moss and grass

 

That's how old songs are

You hear them and never smile

Everyone listening and thinking

Long after they fall into the night