Streams become rivers become lakes become seas
Delphiniums and phlox rise from soil soaked
In the blood of children, lives strafed under the
Rubble of hospitals and apartment buildings.
Choking dystopic kakistocracy
Gagging pollutants, leaded water,
Internment camps and weeping mothers
Beside brain-washed lockstep robots.
Devils cackle and dance
Freedom, intelligence, rationality, science,
Compassion, charity, empathy,
All dead.
And yet.
Gently flow the waters of Shiloah from
Sources high in the Mountains of Delights
Where pristine snow is filtered through granite
To become the springs of life.
Weary travelers, exhausted mountaineers
Stoop and kneel to drink deeply of icy
Sustainability while the lame wait patiently for
Angelic turbulence to ruffle the peace.
Cougar and ibex lay aside their
Animosity and fear to lap up shalom
Side by side with unicorn and chimera
On banks strewn with broken guns.
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