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Before The Water Gets Too High

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Seldom have I ever
questioned the end
Still I grow frost
when I’m reminded
Euphemisms on
a loop interchange
Which hands get to
turn the final page?
In whose throat belongs
the swan song
Of crisis, warming,
denial, change?

Stage TV helps the
public explain
Broadcast beamed
into the dry terrain
Images of drenched survival
Without hope but
soaked with pain
Consequences of reality felt
All conditions of humanity built
On the bridges
Tent villages waiting for
the state to help

Glass barely bends
before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of
turning back
Before the water gets too high

If the clock strikes midnight
Then what becomes of
our demonstrations?
To which fate have
these gatherings fell?
Which halls echo all the chants
we yelled
Into faces on the coins
we tossed into the wishing well?

Drinking water on
which we subsist
Mixing into rivers
that did not exist yesterday
When all the warning signs
were there but sorely missed
What’s it worth
all the money we made
Floating idly in a newborn lake?
Far above financial centers
Cities sink like market rates.

Glass barely bends
before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of
turning back
Before the water gets too high

Before the water gets too high
Add up the bribes you take
And know time can’t be bought
By the profits that you make
Before the water gets too high
To float the powers that be
Or is it someone else’s job
Until the rich are refugess?
Before the water gets too high