I don’t need to hear the news to know the world
is falling apart. I don’t need to read incisive
analysis to know that things are messed up
perhaps beyond repair. I don’t need live video
feeds from Washington to know our leaders
are once again betraying our trust, selling
us out and not necessarily even to the highest
bidder, are gleefully throwing under the bus
every vulnerable person they can find as fuel
for the flames of bigotry that cruelly distract
from the institutionalization of corruption.
No, I can sense the suffering and fear
in the whisperings of the trees as they
try to keep up the pace of purifying our
putrid air, struggling to catch dark particulate
matter and release life giving breath.
