Your words, however strong, fall as broken glass to my bare feet The more you talk, my mandala grows, as the sun strokes the ground with its heat They all say do what thou wilt, but I’m the wilting flower Put in my place by their conventions and rhymes of the hour Inferior would they be in a superman’s eyes But there are no 21st century heroes, lest they wear a disguise Their white noise has an acrid taste, disharmonious and brittle But I’m the leaf who constantly falls, hovering just a little Who then is winning and who is defeated? Power by numbers gets all outsiders deleted Your words, however strong, fall as broken glass to my bare feet The more you talk, my mandala grows, as the sun strokes the ground with its heat