PROTECT OUR LEGACY
by Jeanette C. Maes
(originally published in July 1999 newsletter)
At first they only nibbled here and there.
(before such a grand feast why should they want?)
especially when Spring spread such a lucious
array...Why shouldn't they let their need graze?
A horseshoe court – a swing set for the kids –
Just a few feet for an asphalt driveway.
Who would miss such a small crumb from OUR huge cake?
So, they enlisted in the army, "On the Take!"
First, just the small-time pickpockets of the land
who, in ignorance just didn't understand.
They were not really bent on doing harm
And when they had the error of their ways
Shown in its ugliness, set their wrongs to right.
Those we can forgive, for they have taught us
Need for steady vigilance – patrol,
But, what about the others with intent,
who plan and plot and wheel and deal each year.
Who fan greedy fires of covetousness
and have no love or respect for green space.
The ones who spit, "Tree Huggers" in our face
And the kindest slur is that we're "just dumb
land lovers, who don't know what progress is!"
The dangerous ones, with their plots and schemes
secretly connected to each other
with common goal sealed with Midas touch.
who have no fear of Cyrus Tracy's ghost?
What about their army surrounding OUR woods.
OUR legacy...a Trust for US
A Legacy recorded and sealed by law.
"Lynn Forest – the ancient legitimate
Inheritance of the p e o p l e o f L y n n !
They're at our woods!
We must not let them in!