Terry Donovan - Elephant Day

Elephant day silence
Silence green
Silence hidden
Behind tears
Of dust
Dust ascending
Into a heaven
Of excuses
While the wheels
Of civilisation
Take ever more
The lifeblood
Of the King
And shoot the past
In fast-buck form
Lying,
Dying,
extinct

Terry Donovan

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