The issue is, We, those of us who did not come h… Willingly We’re too red And white

We are Greek, in a democracy We are not pawns for autocracy, We the characters of an Odyssey, Are not your lies for tooth fairy, We are humans with lives you prete…

I dreamed once, For true naive That we would walk Sanguine and silly Besides the trees

To truth, It shows What love it is that glows, That wagons wheel, Birdsong Cardinal flash, river stone Garden grow

I hope you get your dreams From where I sit I cannot see. I hope you are in gilded light Near it does not surround my eyes. I hope you have sound peace

The only promises I’ll make Are the ones you’ve already seen i… I swear, on my life. Paradox of poem and silly sky So is life, on faith we dive.

Your grandma gave me nine dollars After having breakfast on Broadwa… And it wasn’t her but still, She told me what was and I said m… Sincerest apologies true.

All of that was After they knew. I travelled the continent to say be careful I’m sorry

We are the ones Who could not get away Not for nothing But for the state Not for coffee

All the cars have been robbed There was nothing in the vans They made gold of air The radio blares pretend And the traffic’s rough again.

It is raining beautiful And loud. Kind that turns the Cars around Little branches Snap

I saw a dream that cried Riding the bus, passed the tractor… And construction to the outside of… Not a farm but a field A small ranch with a slight mess i…

I was free once, And nobody cared an inch what I’d… That’s how I liked it, that’s wha… Now, for a year or more, The state knocking at my door,

The whole world eats Our love, lives and dreams We sit and sigh another eve

Turpentine and willfulness Robins and terns, with etching sti… We gliding by, whole as much in ou… No it’s not nothing, an epic, for… For surviving with the beauty we h…