Men

Where’d the men go 
Did they march off
to some war of
which I was unaware 
Were they beamed up 
into some alien craft
and swept far away 
to some distant planet 
to propagate that place 
Where did they go 
Being a man meant 
something once and not
what so many think 
What did it mean 
Go ask your fathers 
father and his father 
and his and his 
for men have been 
gone for a long 
time before yesterday and 
even longer than today 
And I’m wholly uncertain 
if they’ll ever return 
having been lost to 
war or another place