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Original Song

It blared a song they called disaster

collapse it commanded

loud enough for them all

It held them hostage

the ones who called themselves her children

and all those who did not

It chased away the hands

from the rich man’s clock

There she collects her debt

in the hours they’ve lost

There she builds her window

from their dirt and cost

She waves and waves again

to old friends

to the dawn and the dusk

the gatekeepers of her rhythm

Here she dances again

the tune her companions have kept

in their darkness

in their cosmic rotations

Maybe you will hear again

life

in your breath

her only tempo

Maybe we will see again

return

in this isolation

to the original song