Shaking Like a Leaf

In the wake of the post atomic age

Will they stand against their internecine rage

For the little ones

for the lonely ones

for their fellow man who points the gun

Shaking Like a Leaf, conform or else to the solemn motif

I don't like to get involved

I don't think there is anything to be solved

It's all the same, just a different game.

By any other name

Shaking Like a Leaf

Like something penned by the late Georgia O'Keeffe

Oh how beautiful our world but this

Frightened and cold

I will mix the sounds of old

Seeing what their coffers hold

Shaking like a Leaf

Conform or else to the solemn motif

Oh how beautiful our world but this