Twenty-Six

Music: In Search of the Lost Future.
By Julie Maxwell.
Performed by Julie Maxwell at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license. Visit Julie Maxwell's Websites at http://www.juliemaxwell.com and Bandcamp: https://juliemaxwellspianomu­sic.bandcamp.com/.

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Twenty-six enjoys the wilderness,
Which was, until quite recently, our home.
Even now, with craft, we can survive,
Needing nothing more to stay alive,
Though there is not much wilderness to roam.
Yet what there is, is touched by holiness.

So we live in towns in deep distress,
Instinctively at odds with all we've known,
Xerophytes pure waters would revive.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.



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