Every foreign shore
strange rugged beauty
docks a native boat
which takes for granted
every exotic pine or palm
that may move a stranger
to wonder
Now beauty in countryside
lies further away in further lands
faster planes and deeper pockets
The land you abandon in search
for more, is visited by another
in the same pursuit
Rocks rumble, mighty aging machines
churn out life soil
Trees are born, die or are axed down
Trains wind corridors of steel and
return from whence they came
River run their course one way
Cities rise, empires fall
graves lie forgotten
lies float unchallenged
history rewrites itself
Countries are named
invisible lines, uncrossable
borders defy monumental
canyon and Caradhras
Each speaking their own
keeping their own
Forgetting the one land
that wraps itself around
the core of a planet
bathed in living seas
.
12 April 2007
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