Walking - September 2006

Walking (September 2006)

I am walking
lost
wandering
Through a place
where ancient
Amerikans -
Native Americans -
probably lived with god
and respecyed the land
and prayed for peace
But the land has shrunk
overrun by the cars and people
you can now hear in the distance
from the new wilderness of strip malls and
overgrown houses
which have staked claim to the land
like evil warriors
and have driven god herself out
The cars and people
haunt the open land
that once stretched freely for miles
They suffocate the spirit
Too close and bullying
For anyone to make a meaningful connection
with nature
evermore
The small track of land
now a token speck of open space
surrounded by a suffering civilization
hell bent on
self-destruction
(and they don’t even know it!)