Softly Upon the Heartland
25" x 20"
acrylic / canvas

Indiscriminate you shine upon the robber's tool
and pale skin of the woodland lovers.
How can you beam so recklessly
and judge not where your gleam might fall?

How might you tutor us
you who glints upon the killer's eye
but lights the drover's path by night
and guides the ship past boulders black ?

How can you illumine the ragged child
below the cold grey bridge
yet shine so softly upon the heartland.
What justice is in you twin of time.
Why so unfair old friend?