The Democracy of Now (For the Heroes of Hurricane Harvey)

Stand on this mound of stone

and look around

Our energy is fire

and water is everywhere

This delicate birth

This cold season

Our prayer is a whisper

To the anatomy of love

We shall crave the truth

with no fear leading

to awakening

We are 

as in everything

a part of you

This summer of the broken heart

is just a single moment

on a winding road

Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now

Let us embrace the rain

to wash us of our sins

As we head to bed to weep

and awake again

to see the morning comes again

since there is no end

only now

Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now

It is no matter

We can float like roses

out into the sea

We can let float

in the currents

of our mutual history

as the eternal memory

of liberty lost at sea

Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now

Just go and know

You are an American

We cannot save the world

but we can save each other

Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now

Hey Hey now hear now

~ Douglas McDaniel

Double Drop Water Company, Arizona

They were perfect for each other

at the Double Drop Water Company;

keeping each other company,

certain shapes matching each other,

like one could be a sister,

the other a brother ...

What was missing

was their components as lovers,

creatives in fear as art,

their promise pipers apart

when the short shadows

no longer hurting, the pain

in the piping,

the promise of war in the offing, injured

at the office,

 in longing the retail recovery

went up in smoke,

 the sugar cookie cutter

people all left town

 as they returned to mop

up the mess