With these eyes.
With these eyes I have seen the world and all of natures spendour
The ins and outs of everyday life and fools of either gender
Witnessed courage bourn from fear, and truth told in defiance
And acts of wickedness mean of thought and followers of blind compliance
With these eyes I have seen angels wings in hues of white and gold
Snarling dogs and knives that stab and things best to stay untold
Snowy mountaintops and newborn lambs gambolling in fields of green
Treacherous deeds and demon seeds the worst there's ever been
With these eyes I have seen the love between mother and her child
Poverty and famine, hateful racism and rioters running wild
Graceful swans in tanquil ponds under skies of azure blue
Violence and malice, a poisoned challis, naked aggression too
With these eyes I have seen raw courage way beyond belief
Orphaned children of war torn nations crying with sadness and grief
The look of glee when children run free in fields of golden hay
The helplessness of a ravaged addict as he exists from day to day
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Where have all the trees gone Dad?
Dad! When I was in school the teacher showed me a picture of a tree
I've never seen one of those before, tall and handsome and brown and green you see
Do you remember seeing a tree when you were young? My teacher says there were many
She says that they grew all over the world but now days there aren't any
What did they look like? Did they blow in the wind?
Did the leaves fall in the autumn or was it in spring?
How high did they grow? Did they sway to and fro?
Did they look pretty covered in winters first fall of snow?
Dad, teacher says they'll grow no more, she says the climate has changed forever
She says we're all poorer now and explained to us how we'll have to suffer together
I heard that there was a tree that grew as tall as a skyscraper
But they cut it down and mulched it up to make us all new paper
It would be nice to see trees growing proud and strong
Reaching up to the sky with their branches so long
But that's just a dream I know I'll never see
It's just a vision in a picture never to be reality for me
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