What the sunset shows

There’s no mistake we find we have not made,

yet we have not been wounded by a stroke

although we’d taken up an honest trade.

There is no shelter, and we have no shade

but think we are protected from the smoke ,

there’s no mistake we find we have not made.

The parasites remain after we’ve sprayed,

and do not care for any word we spoke,

although we’d taken up an honest trade.

Within the garden, even though we prayed 

there was neither protection nor a cloak:

There’s no mistake we find we have not made,

nor any offer of succor or aid,

and no one came our failure to revoke,

although we’d taken up an honest trade.

The countenance that we always displayed 

became, we found, a truly boring joke:

There’s no mistake we find we have not made

although we’d taken up an honest trade.