Building Brick from Straw

What the old ones were saying
is much, I think, to what we are
saying today. The difficulties
are often obvious simplicities;
as a running stream will break
and reshape the image of our moon
all night long: the way our children
build brick from the straw of childhood
and watch for signals from the sky to break
into radiant glows of tomorrow's dreams
or nuances of yesterday's coulds and shoulds.