It All Breaks Down

Laughter, joyful happiness
Dancing, playful singing
It all breaks down

Pieces everywhere
Microscopic, impossible to see
It all broke down

Falling apart
Back together never
It all breaks down

Screaming, shouting insanity
Crying laughter
It all broke down

It was the end of everything
The beginning of nothing
The end of the beginning of the end of the ...

It all broke down.

       -- Bem Ajani Jones-Bey   8.8.99