Natural Retribution

Shackle my feet
Sweet tenderness
Train track spider back
Walk me to the wilderness
I feel like home
In the trees
With the squirrels and bears
And the birds and the bees
Away from my own kind
Human kind
Who really aren’t kind at all
Shackle my heart
Deep wilderness
Dirt road dirty toad
In nature’s tenderness
I feel at home
Even though
I don’t belong
Knowing I could never
Undo what man has done
Infecting
And dissecting
Since time had begun
Oh how I long to be free
As the dolphins
Swimming in the sea
Or the pandas
Chewing on bamboo trees
Shackle my feet
Tackle me sweet
Train track booby trap
We don’t belong
Where we shouldn’t be