What is this that we've created,
Someone forgot to shut the water
off, we've bottled our emotions,
Look up, the birds have flown away,

Words fall and whisper from the shadows,
Storm clouds cast a frown upon you,
All lost except the road before you,
Look down, the ants have found a hero,

Encaged, the doves that whisper freedom,
Someone has drawn a line between them,
Lullaby, a breath of your despair,
Look around, fields of rotting apples,

Sway like the trees that weep before us,
Close your eyes and sleep there's no tomorrow,
Please sir, may I seek a promise?
Look down, the ants have gone away.

By: Daniel Hansen
Dec.26/99