CYCLING TO AFRICA TO SAVE THE ELEPHANTS

CYCLING TO AFRICA TO SAVE THE ELEPHANTS

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for Alexandra Bradley

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Impervious! She goes!

The wheels spin, she rides!

Like beloved music

Played for a solid afternoon

She cannot be slowed,

She cannot be stopped!

Her face covers the walls

of a thousand hearts.

She’s cycling to Africa

to save the elephants.

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For the greater good of God

For the smile from a friend

For the smallest shard of

Hope from the radio,

She’s cycling to Africa

to save the elephants.

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“But why?” her friends

And family say,

“You can’t! You can’t!

There’s an ocean in the way!”

But she’s going just the same,

She’s cycling to Africa

to save the elephants.

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She dreams

Of long yellow paths

Packed hard under

The dance of the pachyderms,

She dreams of memory everlasting

And a land of fertile fields

Where the elephants graze and wait,

They wait for the Shooting Star’s debut

In their faraway land, for she will explain…

She will explain everything.

They wait.

For she will come.

She’s cycling to Africa

to save the elephants.

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