It was my farewell song to this world of dead values and no sympathy for love. It was my requiem for a world that had let me down—a world where brother betrayed brother for land, where men of law stood false witness and obfuscated the truth on behalf of the powerful, where men of God were oblivious to the pain of God’s faithful flock, where fathers sold nubile daughters to corrupt old men and had the gall to call it marriage, where angry rivers separated lovers who were betrothed by God himself in the holy hour when the earth was born.
