Bruce K. Gagnon
Photo from Save Jeju Now- No War Base on the Island of Peace
Here and Now
The starkness of the times
causing even old warriors
to fall
the suffering can bear a load
even on the strongest
For many moons our people
have struggled to survive
been through hell
and back
but we are here
Now
Many of us have fallen
victim to the hype, the pretense,
the flim-flam man,
and the desire to just
be one of the crowd
That’s OK
It’s just time to move on
to get serious about dealing
with our present here
and now
Let the spiritual connection
to our relatives,
that is real,
the two-leggeds.
the four-leggeds, the things
that fly, the things that swim,
the water, the air, the earth
All our relatives
We must fight, crawl, dribble,
snort, swear, and swim
in order to protect
the future generations
who cry out to us
in our sleep.
Here we are now…..