Garden or guard?
How does your garden grow?
How about your guard?
You see what I’m getting at here?
I hope not.
Not yet, anyway.
To put it another way,
How much for plowshares?
How much for swords?
How much for love?
Or for planes above?
Planes that have bombs.
Bombs that explode
Sending shards in every direction.
Killing anyone around.
It’s not just a loud sound.
So this is a killing for willing and unwilling alike.
Soldier in hiding or a boy on a bike.
And, yes, it is true.
A garden unguarded can be taken from you.
But do you ever wonder
How far down the killing path
We must go
To guard our garden?
Let it grow?
How does our garden grow?
How about our guard?
And, speaking of guards.
Are we really guarding what needs to be guarded?
Are we really sure of the guards who guard us?
Do we arm every school bus?
Avoid walks in the sun?
I once dreamed of a tall skinny man
Who built a nice garden with veggies and green
The nicest plots I’d ever seen
So he was happy for a good long span.
Until he began to insist on a wall,
The tallest wall but that’s not all.
Upon the walls, hired shooters sit
The garden’s gone to weeds and silt.
The alarm awoke me to a sunny day.
And I forgot the dream until today.
Thank goodness that nightmare’s done.
I’m so happy that type of error
Is never for the the daylight air.
Never for the real time fare.
Aren’t you?
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petersironwood 