Danny Draper Poems

If you knew of your demise
Not the way just the time
- How would you enlist the future?
Seek your wrongs to make them right
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To eke and toil and from this world recoil
Is it just to perpetuate lifes' plan
As fare for vital precious time consumed
What efforts progressed tired seniors hands?
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It's not about flag waving
Or conceit that we're the best
It's not about anthem singing
As most would fail the test
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Oceans sink heat and swell devouring coasts,
Cyclonic eyes drift still further afield,
Tidal surges are more frequent and real,
Low countries drowned, are lost with no big deal,
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There was one Law for the rich and the poor
Ambiguities too rich to ignore
An abstruseness that the privileged explore,
Discovering the value of blind justice
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I am bereft of anger
that has passed through rage
For the empty humans that
Cannot share or partake in this one Earth
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I'm not the Lorax,
But I speak for the trees
Those woody shade spreaders
That vacuum the breeze,
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Always sought, sorely missed.

If I followed to your journey’s end
and broke that which cannot be mended,
my understanding would not be extended.
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8: 00 pm:
The gate closed to mundane daily comings and goings,
Those gathered fidgeted with small talk in anticipation
Names in precisely incised rolls clothed cavernous walls for
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Sensors trip the doors,
consumers are exchanged, a
Breath of the world rushes in,
sighs, and is truncated.
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