Kit Kelen #382 - parable - we wanted the whole world warmer

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parable

we came from the ice

and out of the trees

and wanted the whole world warmer

we lit fires

and we kept fire close

we warmed ourselves

and at the timber

brought worlds down

we were the axe

and we were the flame

it was as if winter were our forever

we only wanted the whole world warmer

we dug and we hacked

and we burnt

we built

o fearful the dark

but we made bright

and we brought fire indoors

we dug until we had roof overhead

four walls and outside the fearful

still cold and we kept

with the axe at

the others we've eaten

we cooked on the fire

we wanted the whole world warmer

we burnt till all of the forest was gone

we dug and dug till

we came to the clock

at first we couldn't hear the tick or the tock

that's where we are now

hard to hear anything

everyone's in charge, hot under collar

no one's even looking anymore

but I tell you there is a ticking

and it's dangerous having shovels

and mattocks so close to the wires

o but noone

will listen

to me

it's hard to see

how this will pan out

but I predict, in time to be

at the Court of All Spirits

in our trial our defence will simply be

we wanted the whole world warmer