Erosion

Secluding the infant's reliance

Self-indulgence is reigning

As the redundant has been denied

Standing vast since adolescence

Still susceptible like a nursling

Desperately longing for

The roots to grow deeper

But they can't be reached as concrete walls

Have been built around them

Solely walking the earth

Searching for affirmation

As the heart knows

Heredity can't flee from its precedent

The benighted progenitor

Vigorous still

Inattentive of what his actions composed

The trees are saving themselves

With branches reaching towards the skies

While the powers of our great mother

Are trying to smite them down

She's hearing their cries

Vainly pleading to keep the trunks strong and whole

As tribes need the soil to be nourishing

The shepherd reverses rolls

As the wolf becomes the prey

Flames arise from the ashes

Left behind by the conflict

While the convict is wearing its mask like a proteus

Denying the torment that has been inflicted

Leading his life like a proteus

As no history lies behind him