Wednesday, August 3, 2011

How Can You Own The Thing That Feeds You

Most people's thinking on land and the ownership of it to me anyway seems all wrong
For how can we own something that owns us since to the land we do belong
She grows the food we need to live on without her we could not hope to survive
How can you own the thing that feeds you the thing that keeps you alive
The land we claim to own we cannot take with us when the breath of life from us has gone
Perhaps one of your children will own the deed to your property and life on the land does go on
The land keeps on growing food for generations of people and this is how it always will be
We cannot own the thing that supports us and feeds us that is how it does seem to me
All we own of the land is a piece of paper that says so from a tree that the land  has grown
The legal document that tells others the property is your's in a true sense the land it does own
For centuries people over land have been warring and for the land they fight for they die
By believing in the first place 'tis their land they fight for they do believe in their own lie
'Tis all about land and all about land possession but when we die the land does remain
Why we fight over a thing we do belong to is beyond me for to explain
You say you own your land but i beg to differ since i feel you do have it wrong
How can you own something that feeds and supports you that you in truth to does belong?

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