Mother Turtle

Mother Turtle,
Why must you leave us in the ground?
And walk away from your young,
Why can't you stayy, for just one day?
To protect us from harms way,
Mother Turtle

The tortoise walked on soldiers frowned faces that wait to smile,
Their minds see friends dying that will be stuck there a while,
van Gough painted raven's flying, they've been flying for miles,
And Gandhi is weeping as his tears fill soldier's loaded rifles

A chestnut seeds falls on a solier that's dying,
The trees bare seeds that through centeries are cying,
Their branches the echoes of long untold stories,
And their seeds are the number of soldiers that bleed

Mother Turtle,
Why do you leave us so far from the ocean's soft tide?
Why do we have to run across the beach for freedom?
Why not lay your eggs a little closer to the shore?
And why can't more lives be saved?
Mother Turtle