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Climate-X-Change Gallery: Enduring Freedom

Enduring Freedom (uploaded by nickowen)

Led bellied blackness Heavy rain Clouds rushing westward Bombing through my lovely countryside They are born out of the eye Of a most savage storm How they oppress Oppress My life My world My Wychwood forest A dreadful mess This is no battlefield Only fox and pheasant are slaughtered here Yet I am And we are all Among the fallen With faltering steps, we stumble forward Bewildered Stammering The forces of a vengeful biosphere Like an evil empire’s army Have swept with awesome power through these trees Now the storm has left us We struggle through this smashed down landscape Sycamores, like unarmed soldiers Hacked off at the knees We can find our way safe homeward This is not Falluja This was not the will of Man I try to comprehend The annihilation of a city And the suffering of its people I witness What I can

Led bellied blackness Heavy rain Clouds rushing westward Bombing through my lovely countryside They are born out of the eye Of a most savage storm How they oppress Oppress My life My world My Wychwood forest A dreadful mess This is no battlefield Only fox and pheasant are slaughtered here Yet I am And we are all Among the fallen With faltering steps, we stumble forward Bewildered Stammering The forces of a vengeful biosphere Like an evil empire’s army Have swept with awesome power through these trees Now the storm has left us We struggle through this smashed down landscape Sycamores, like unarmed soldiers Hacked off at the knees We can find our way safe homeward This is not Falluja This was not the will of Man I try to comprehend The annihilation of a city And the suffering of its people I witness What I can