Brain of water
Wet cement
Drip drip
Down the drain
Dig for gold
Drink the syrup
Milk milk fire
This is not the dewdrop
Mountain climbs atop the boulder
Tree trees lemonade silver
Water wavers skirt the surf
Drink the salt and dredge the swamp
Dredge this swamp of ocean litter
Let the sea cold shimmer
I want the world back
I want the world back to where it was
I want those old friends back
The missing bees and the
bears and the dodos and
the dinosaurs and the
The raptors and the
mustelids
But I know that I can’t
turn back the clock
And go back to the
Mesozoic Era
So since we can’t
go back to yesteryear
Can we at least create
Newer year for all the
birds and beasts
And all of us
A brand new clock
With no silicon required
No digital numbers
Just serenity
And being one
With the soil
And the wind
And the trees