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we 'mark' indifference with our teachings

and dream of flowers beneath the breeze

with calloused hands we cup the sunlight

and pray for the reigns we'd hoped to seize

the days from yesteryear fade slowly

upon a blade of grass the 'dew' declines

and fevered kisses turn up missing

upon dark roads dust grows and climbs

a fabled future shows no mercy

fate cannot promise all in haste

so while we wait beside the roadways

we challenge 'hope', so brief, so chaste

if we hold 'truth' up like a banner

we come to stand for friends and foes

for the wider world is like a 'forest'

where amber rays turn leaves aglow

we 'mark' indifference with our teachings 

while gazing 'outward' beyond the breach