To The Tree Hugger In Times Square Poem by Ben Partenay

The rain falls and David will not win today
While his sign screams “Save the Trees”
And everywhere the world is go, go, go
And the sky is rain, rain, rain

I watch your words fall mutely
Bounce, and become raindrops, watch
The stony words you throw get brushed aside
By windshield wipers, by tight squinted eyes

Watch the brave word “change” you shout
Get stamped out by black black shoes
By men with umbrellas held like spears
And briefcases like little black shields

While the days and days and people pass
While the world spin, spins, spun the same direction
While the rain slips down windows like glass tears
While all the islands slip into the sea

You stand there, glare angrily at it all
While ten thousand pairs of legs walk past
Cross off “trees” change to “countless people”
As Goliaths brush past with closed axe eyes