A shadow lurks in wait
On every shattered shore
Where avarice and hate
Have left no room for more
We trample and we steal
From earth and from ourselves
Seeking that golden meal
More trinkets for our shelves
But when it all is stripped away
And when the earth is dry and spent
We’ll find our gold is dun and grey
That we have killed the very firmament
I have not seen more than a speck
Of all the wide world’s scenery
And so I long to go and trek
‘Cross all the land and every sea
Let all the music on the wind
Sing bright and loud to every shore
I swing and heft my worldly tools
That they might make of all around
A place more like what came before
When they were but a dream, I but a man
I watch and wait for anything to pass
Some moment that would make it clear to me:
This is the truth that I can trust to last
This is the path I’ll walk eternally
A wolf resides within my heart
E’er threatening to leap and bite
To fight and tear my world apart
If I were to give in one night
A fiery heat within my breast
Calls out to all the living earth
Cries not to dwell amongst the rest
But in a place of trees and birds and mirth
Some days I weep for rocks and trees
Those blanketed in ash
Some days I weep for putrid breezes
From which I will dash
Some days I weep for oceans blue
Gone sour beneath the waste
Of man, ruled by “I before you”,
And so before the world, in greed and haste
The reddened skies foretell a bloody day
And by and by I shiver for what comes
Such promises of wind and thunder’s drums
Threaten to take me and lead me astray
I walk amongst the ashes of a place
Gone dry and cold from unbound fear and greed
A Poem A Day 