
Wilderness
by James Coburn
I don’t need
a presidentās approval
for the spring in my step.
We hold hands beyond night.
Mass in starlight;
enlighten dark despair.
Walk within wilderness
of rainforest breathing air.
Joker says engage
alternate facts;
a double-vision blindness
produced by hacks.
Science does not change
inconvenient truth.
Humanity is a prism
colored light.
I welcome family of man.
Come drink from a watershed
filled by rivers and streams
Elitism turns to rust.
Greed turns an empire to dust.
Welcome sisters neglected in pain.
Your blood is my blood;
your bondage my stain.
Angel of ravenous crows
Pecks where innocence goes.
Genetic pools favor diversity
under our sun.
No registry for religion.
Touch as one.
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