This is the jungle      

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This is the jumbo jungle

where I see an educated savage

Boasting, berating, babbling, belittling 

causing chaos and demanding damage

 

This is the jumbo jungle

It’s an electric forest, a beehive

A bed made of thorns and flowers

A river flowing long and deep along 

ravenous and redundant powers

 

This is the jumbo jungle 

Where the fog reveals suffering

of a penniless barefoot girl

who impressed a money man 

And their son who knew too less

to take care of his orange tan  

 

This is the jumbo jungle

In which I live and breathe

An immigrant with opinions

I am both scared and strong 

I care for water, the earth, and you

I am conflicted, I am relentless and

I long for the simpler world I knew