I feel the pain -
Destruction and shame
anger and hate and rage
In all this beauty i can't
help but wonder why
we don't change
Can't escape past Babylon
no matter how deep
i get, in meditation
the jungles the valleys
the forests the mountains
the hot springs the love -
the garbage
just keeps piling up
encroaching in on every last
piece of natural land
my enemy is my friend, so i take a stand!
if i can learn to breathe again
if i can learn to shake her hand,
his head ego my shortcomings
of crust running down
my spine, entrenched in the
perverted divine outreaches of
civilization,
hesitation
lost in formulation
of the new world inside
i know where hope goes when its died
cuz I've birthed her from the base of mine
I cry a thousand tears for the 300 child
hourly malnourished deaths,
images of war constantly
run through my head,
work is all I got left
to do nothing is to contribute to the mess
Bless bless bless
it's like a game of chess
and pawns are just the less
fortunate of the rest,
gotta build gotta feed
gotta squeeze and release
this stake that’s been driven through
our collective hearts!
Restart the pause
of an etiquette long gone,
unclick the bars
and un-slick the fog of humanities bind
transitioning in the time of epochs unwind
no denying the power of the times
change is the only constant
and it's accelerated with breath
we are the next step in human evolution
fuck all this pollution
be a part of the solution!
Fantastic. Love this poem, Donel.
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