This is my fear today:
that they will cut down all the trees.
That’s the one thing I hate about spring
They trim the tops of the trees
and every year I am afraid
that they will go too far
and all the new green
will turn brown
and die.

This is my fear today:
that they will think me insensitive
for while I worry that my trees will be cut down
over there they are cutting people
with machine guns and chain saws
and the land is turning dead, and brown
and all the new people
and all the old people
fall
and die.

This is my fear today:
that they will go too far.

That we will go too far.