Grew darker
Every day
Grim hope
Bleak finale
Reset: next!
Grim hope
Bleak finale
Reset: next!
Driven to despair
By the shepherds
Of fear
Reeking of the violence
Wrought by anger
And the platitudes of righteousness
Hope
The beauty of an amber sky
Belies a failure
Of political will
And the premature deaths
Of millons
A time before
The Clean Air Act of 1970
The Environmental Protection Agency
Which gave the Act bite
And enforced its many regulations
I am reminded of that time
When I travel to countries
Which ignore the science
Or have no political will
To preserve the Earth
Which sustains us
Progressive
Political
Psychedelic
Spiritual
So long as the people cried
They lived in their fears
They lived with their losses
Bemoaning the fate
Which had befallen them
Paralyzed with grief
I remind myself
The chaos of such moments
Brings change
The necessity of it
The inevitability of it
Only under such conditions
Can the light of both ideas
Converge upon unexplored ground
Where it often illuminates
An insight better than either idea
The heat’s too hot
The cold’s too cool
No middle ground
To stand on
I choose one side
Or straddle both
The conflict
Still conflicted