I remember the beautiful
\nglacial waters
\nThe wonderful life forces
\nsharing where I
\nSwam in my wildness
\nin depths where the basins
\n450 feet down even deeper
\n930 feet into the darkness
\nA large inland estuary
\nClose to the ocean
\nBrimming with creatures
\nPorpoise and whales
\nAll sorts of sharks
\nClams and those great mussels
\nSea stars and crabs
\nHarbour Seals
\nSecret trails <\/p>\n
To be hunted and brought
\nTo the vilest environment
\nA rotten pool made of concrete
\nAnd light
\nTransfused through my being
\nThe ugly music crescendo\u2019s of purgatory
\nYes I was seeing<\/p>\n
The pollution back there
\nSeattle Tacoma Everett Bremerton
\nHumans so many
\nWaste and the darkest of degeneration
\nSpilt into the sound
\nIn its design
\nReally the anguish we all felt
\nThe angst
\nOur beautiful water
\nOnce lavishly pure
\nWas fast becoming
\nSquanderingly wasteful
\nUngenerous scrimping
\nNo longer a cure<\/p>\n
All those years on my mind from my heart
\nTense and sickly
\nMade to do tricks
\nFor the insane who came
\nThe stench of humanity
\nCold and impassive
\nNot only the trainers
\nBut you lot are to blame<\/p>\n
Where The water was cold
\nAnd there was a bountifulness
\nLife undertook there was promise
\nAround us
\nUnderwritten by our gods
\nOur rights and the sea
\nThe freedom enjoyed
\nThe great liberation
\nAn absolute privilege
\nAnd immunity<\/p>\n
Becoming the prisoner
\nCaptive unlawfully
\nResigned to that fact
\nAll those long years
\nA watery dungeon
\nA corporate servant
\nTaught by those trainers
\nSimpletons who
\nSought our obedience
\nAnd our devotion
\nOur mutinous spirits
\nAnd rebellious notion<\/p>\n
There was never gentleness
\nOnly commandments
\nRules regulations
\nDead frozen fish
\nNothing was living
\nJust ultimatums
\nInflexibility
\nMy only wish from the
\nViolence and pain<\/p>\n
We missed The Lummi
\nThe Indigenous tribes there
\nTheir glorious muttering
\nPositively
\nThey sang their great songs
\nThat we picked up and swam with
\nPromising peacefulness
\nAnd joyfully
\nMutual understanding
\nThe truest rapport
\nFamilies together harmony
\nFor evermore k<\/p>\n
Resigned to the capture
\nTo be passive and yielding
\nBowing and scraping
\nInevitably
\nPaying homage to arse holes
\nOf tiny persuasion
\nHampered and hindered
\nI would never be free<\/p>\n
Undermined and ground down
\nImpeded and tangled
\nNo depth to speak of
\nNo where to go
\nThe chemical water
\nChoking no joking
\nAdulteration
\nContusions and sores
\nGerm laden and awful
\nI lost my salvation
\nExhausted and bored with it all
\nSo the cause<\/p>\n
Just to cease
\njust to close my eyes
\nBe in the graceful
\nSleep in my elegance
\nfor evermore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I remember the beautiful glacial waters The wonderful life forces sharing where I Swam in my wildness in depths where the basins 450 feet down even deeper 930 feet into the darkness A large inland estuary Close to the ocean … Continue reading