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Here I am

Crushed like red pepper

Flakes of food

For a golden fish in a water tank

The river flows outside my door

But always stays in the same place

Listen to it now

Move over rocks

Fall and swirl

Pushing the trees aside

As if they were theatre curtains

Carving a new way

Into the Earth

Guttural caressing

Loving madly

Living inside a heart-shaped house in the forest

Present only here

Out in the world too much fear

Looking up at the last blue sky

Sketching hope with aching eyes

Red, white, and blue gnomes of rebuttal

Refuting all those hateful social lies.