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Velene Campbell

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When Everything We Do Casts Shadows



This is a time when everything we do
casts shadows. The diamonds we buy
block out the light of those who dig the stone,
a can for soup is cut from the earth,
scars the landscape, returns to the earth
in changed form.

A woman driving her children to school
guns the gas that powers wars
thousands of miles away.

In animal factories pain is palpable,
immense. Farmers, broken by corporate interests,
watch as genes are inserted into seed.

Henchmen stand in the shadows
our money casts; shadows
that wait and grow in time;

like the shadow on the film of an x-ray;
in our lungs as sunlight
filters through smog.

Copyright (c)Velene Campbell,2004. All rights reserved.

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