Men Walking Like Trees
I am a witness, a living witness
Tell the Sanhedrin I have tongue for sale
For all evening
Through thunder, hail, and rain
I have seen her dancing
Like a mad woman in the streets
Celebrating her invisible jubilee
But did not hear her say
Once I was blind but now can see
I only heard the rising tumult
The omnious consequence of incessant guns
And children crying
From behind grilled doors
And did not smell ganja like days before
Just an acrid smoke
And a sudden lost of visibility.
Will you maim again the parents worship
For injured pride from prattling son?
Will you deny me place of history
Because only see
Men walking who do move
But gouged vast earth of its resources
Garbling with tentacles stretching like fingers from the heart
Every substance from our deepest root.
I am a living witness
I see them too, have known them for years
Men walking like trees with deciduous cares.
Copyright © David Smalling | Year Posted 2012
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