Steel Drum

Tell me again how the sun is ahead
How the radical winds cannot halt it
Show me how I might squint my eyes
So the mountains seem nearer to me
Describe every detail, every edge
The hammered silver crown atop our heads
As the sound of steel drums shines on

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Foothills

We are beautiful
You know
Out here looking in
But were we 
In there looking out
I doubt
We’d see it 

We’d worship
Screens and glass
Belongings and
Our own stale air 
But out there
Out here
We are beautiful