“Meanwhile, mountains wear downand boulders break up,Stones wear smoothand soil erodes,as you relentlessly grind down our hope.You’re too much for us.As always, you get the last word.We don’t like it and our faces show it,but you send us off anyway.If our children do well for themselves, we never know it;if they do badly, we’re spared the hurt.Body and soul, that’s it for us—a lifetime of pain, a lifetime of sorrow.”