Summer 2023: 42, On a Wing and a Prayer, Jim Tilley

Like monarchs
xxxWe are
xxxxxxOn our way

To extinction
xxxNobody around to
xxxxxxPlant the milkweed

Unlike monarchs
xxxWe are
xxxxxxResponsible

For the loss
xxxOf natural habitat
xxxxxxThat sustains us

Like monarchs
xxxWe pass on
xxxxxxFrom generation

To generation
xxxThe will to move
xxxxxxOnward in stages

Unlike monarchs
xxxWho know how
xxxxxxTo get where

They are going
xxxWithout ever
xxxxxxHaving been there

We don’t seem
xxxTo know where
xxxxxxWe are heading