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 If we are all to die
 the cornfields left quite cornless
 the wheat-fields, withered, dry
 the oceans without fishes
 the waterline too high
 if we too are just drifters
 we are subject to the tides
 can be drowned beneath the waters
 as tempers and temperatures rise
 if we are to go under
 then first let’s reach the skies
 let us bathe in truest moonlight
 hear the sweetest lullabies
 let us drift in currents wondrous
 let us dance together tight
 let us say we won’t go quietly
 let us say we lived our lives
 but in the noise still listen
 still learn to read the signs
 still stop to think and keep our heads
heed the worries of the night
 stop to listen to our children
 because they are getting wise
 we said they were the future
they've seen right through that lie
 we said children are the future
 so let us, please, just try!
 to understand that we are
 as much the free, as much the truly wild
 as fishes in the waters
 as birds on brilliant skies
 as mushrooms blooming nightly
 as winging butterflies
 as great old eucalyptus
 as flower, stem, and vine
 and let us please remember
 that we are all to die
 and children are the future
  
please let us only try!
  
 to leave the oceans cleaner
 to leave the jungles high
 to leave the doorways open
 to leave the windows wide
 let us read the books and write them
 keep true memory live
 let us hope that there’s forgiveness
 that there’s an afterlife
 let us hope some higher spirit
 has kindness on its mind
 hope we haven’t quite lost contact
 lost grip, lost voice, lost sight
 when we forgot that we’re earth’s children
 we lost our power, lost our right
 to tell the future’s children
 that we know better than the light
 know why it breaks in early morning
 better than the night-stars bright
 that we know better than this planet
 because we have our satellites
 have worlds here in our pockets
 have access day and night
 to endless lies or knowledge
 to living byte-by-byte
 we’ve forgotten it’s not normal 
 to find love by swiping right
 forgotten how to speak the truth
 without hatred, without spite
 forgotten fear begets regret
 fosters war, and famine, flight
 forgotten that we all are one
 that we needn’t take a side
 we needn’t call each other, other
 choose only left or right
 we needn’t think we are alone
 needn’t think in terms of might
 then maybe, only maybe
 we’ll find safety in the golden flickered light
 of fire and easy company
 find what our DNA desires
 find common pain, and common scars
 from common wounds of life
 and from those bonds, build something
 that makes our time worthwhile.