Citizen of the Planet

I start up in the north, I grow up from special seed
 I sprinkle it with sensibility
 From French and Hungarian snow
 I linger in the sprouting until my engine's full
 Then I move across the sea to European bliss
 To language of poets
 As I cut the cord of home
 I kiss my mother's mother, look to the horizon
 Wide-eyed, new ground
 Humbled by my new surroundings
 I am a citizen of the planet
 My president is Kwan Yin
 My frontier is on an airplane
 My prisons: homes for rehabilitating
 
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 Then I fly back to my nest, I fly back with my nuclear
 But everything is different
 So I wait, my yearn for home is broadened
 Patriotism expanded, by callings from beyond
 So I pack my things
 Nothing precious
 All things sacred
 I am a citizen of the planet
 My laws are all of attraction
 My punishments are consequences
 Separating from source the original sin
 I am a citizen of the planet
 Democracy's kids are sovereign
 Where the teachers are the sages
 And pedestals fill with every parent
 And so, the next few years are blurry
 The next decade's a flurry of smells and tastes unknown
 Threads sewn straight through this fabric
 Through fields of every color, one culture to another
 And I come alive
 And I get giddy
 And I am taken and globally naturalized
 I am a citizen of the planet
 From simple roots through high version
 I am guarded by the angels
 My body guides the direction I go in
 I am a citizen of the planet
 My favorite pastime: edge-stretching
 Besotten with human condition
 These ideals are born from my deepest within