Consume away your 

rights with every purchase that

buys another vote

TV signals beam

disdain for the boring lives 

of their audience 

River locked in ice 

still flows below and grinds at

the edges so loudly 

 I recall your scars

received by cars and in bars

but only skin deep 

Wind-carried snow blinds 

so whitely, not purity 

but simply nature 

Branches stripped of life

strain towards the sun begging for

its warming embrace

Like a panther pads

silently at night darkness

creeps up behind us