The Roots Sink Deeper © 2007
written by Glen Yumang Manese
a.k.a. Filipino American Dream

Life is a tree
With each ring
The branches grow
And the leaves fall
The roots sink deeper
And all is realized
For a moment
Until the oak
Is cut to timbers
Does humanity really care?
In the years of fresh air
The nation’s eagle
Once nestled
All the other birds
That whistled
The bees
Which carried the honey
The fruit
of their natural property
Does a 100 years
Count for something
Anything
Or
Nothing
This ground
Shall have no claims
This land
Shall have no signature
But I see
Totally in the eyes
For the future
All or nothing
For nature
Tortures me to think
My life as a house
A picket fence
A billboard saying:
Save the world
That would at least
Be justice
Being a witness
To the conduct
Of business
Oil makers
Deal makers
Money makers
Inks on my paper
Pollutes the waters
But doesn’t really matter
Shatters the mother
The father
The daughters
Or the other called my brothers
With birth defects
Affects society
Down to poverty
Liberty helps
Governmental welfare
Mental stability
Reality strikes
Like lawyers
Doctors prescribe
Inscribe more then
Writers
Fighters of any curable
Attainable pharmaceutical
Articles saying:
This or That
While a big cat
Catches all the rats
Sat here thinking
Blinking computer screen
The meaning of 100 years
Fears me
To be the voice of a tree
Free speech calls everyone
One voice may save:
A world of trees.
Seeing newspapers
Litters of literacy
Piracy
Democracy
Atrocities
Cities
Citing political
Mental propaganda
Agendas of the media
Ideas in ideology
Technology is a gift
Lifts the society
Piety to all
Falls to question thinking
Becoming old fashion
Sections off reality
Abilities we’ve forgotten
Spoiled rotten
Often causes turmoil
Oil prices on the rise
Crises the planet
Like magnets
Nets a web
Ebbs away the sea
Seeing all this
That in the eyes of a tree
Believing lies in me
Trees speak their minds
Confines anything
Nothing is left out
About what I’ve become
Welcome to my world of truth
The roots sink deeper
And all is realized

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