Animal

more and more there is this animal
 looking out through my eyes
 at all the traffic on the road to nowhere
 at all the shiny stuff around to buy
 at all the wires in the air
 at all the people shopping
 for the same blank stare
 at america the drastic
 that isolated geographic
 that's become infested with millionaires
 when you grow up surrounded
 by willful ignorance
 you have to believe
 mercy has its own country
 and that it's round and borderless
 and then you have to grow wings
 and rise above it all
 like there
 where that hawk is circling
 above that strip mall
 more and more there is this animal
 looking out through my eyes
 seeing that animals only take from this world
 what they need to survive
 but she is prowling through all the religions of men
 seeing that time and time and time again
 their gods have made them
 special and above
 nature's law
 and the respect thereof
 and i think when you grow up surrounded
 by willful ignorance
 you have to believe that mercy has its own country
 and that it's round and borderless
 and then you just grow wings
 and rise above it all
 like there where that hawk is circling
 above that strip mall
 ask any eco-system
 harm here is harm there
 and there and there
 and aggression begets aggression
 it's a very simple lesson
 that long preceded any king of heaven
 and there's this brutal imperial power
 that my passport says i represent
 but it will never represent where my heart lives
 only vaguely where it went
 cuz i know when you grow up surrounded
 by willful ignorance
 you learn that mercy has its own country
 and that it's round and borderless
 and then you just grow wings
 and rise above it all
 like there
 where that hawk is circling
 above that strip mall