The rain falls and David will not win today <br />While his sign screams “Save the Trees” <br />And everywhere the world is go, go, go <br />And the sky is rain, rain, rain <br /> <br />I watch your words fall mutely <br />Bounce, and become raindrops, watch <br />The stony words you throw get brushed aside <br />By windshield wipers, by tight squinted eyes <br /> <br />Watch the brave word “change” you shout <br />Get stamped out by black black shoes <br />By men with umbrellas held like spears <br />And briefcases like little black shields <br /> <br />While the days and days and people pass <br />While the world spin, spins, spun the same direction <br />While the rain slips down windows like glass tears <br />While all the islands slip into the sea <br /> <br />You stand there, glare angrily at it all <br />While ten thousand pairs of legs walk past <br />Cross off “trees” change to “countless people” <br />As Goliaths brush past with closed axe eyes<br /><br />Ben Paynter<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-tree-hugger-in-times-square/
