GREEN LAND

GREEN LAND

they hashtagged
hyphenated

took away the sky
up there, a tiny square
Mr Rockefeller,
Jets and Giants,
have to
strain your neck
to see it

before
their thoughts lurched upwards
it was the green
they took
had disappear

no one casts their mind back
to dawn days of arrival
striding across the shore
feeling
exceptional
albeit just a sprinkling

a dust of darkness
misconstrued in the light
but
    not entirely for the better
changing everything

and we
too
   were disappeared, story
of our disappearance,
that
   disappeared too

ghosts and bones
beneath those cities,
remembered
     perhaps as irony, regrettable
tragedy, parody

voices long gone
and with them all the words

other green lands out there
waiting for
     all this to repeat