We look up, to
Watch shooting golden eagles,
We feel the weights, when
Black-tailed gazelles sprint,
Marbled polecats make swift moves,
Bactrian camels troll above in turns,
Leopards sprint above,
Brown bears stalk us still,
Wolves howl the night awake.
We are to sustain the wild life,
We have seen all things.
When the clouds sink into the dreary dusk,
The roots of trees are drawn down in its heavy weight.
Are we remote?
No longer now.
There are many of us, to
Feel the burdens on our shoulders,
Smell the carts of solid tiles and bricks and
Baskets of slurry,
We see iron pillars,
We hear sounds of resounding hammers,
We are tinctured by modern technology.
We have seen all things.
There are so many of us, to be
Rent apart from one another and
To be turned into massive mines.
Costly copper and gold deposits, they say,
Make much money.
Let me speak, let us speak!
Why are our bodies loosening?
Are we losing our minds and
Moving away from our home?
We are
expanding,
There is
No one to
Hold onto!
We have not,
Heard about
The Green Wall of China,
We are
