madmen
determined our boys' life
because we played in their rubble
after the madmen were gone
and people moved by by the thousands
and the trains were filled to above their roofs
and hundreds came to our doors
asked for food
churches bled their sins
hiding as if for eternity
under their own ruins
and a madman
entered our history books
we boys entered life
as if after history
as if history happens only in books
as if madmen congregate only on theatre's stage
as if the theatre of madness had closed down