The author has seen a proud pigeon walking about like a General, at the same time a hawk was circling above. One day this same hawk may gobble up the pigeon, but it's not this day and the pigeon has no scare or care for the hawk. This inspired the poet :
Let my hawk circle above me
We have still fight in us
Dammit!
-Mikhael Lermentov -
The fighting spirit of which brings us to this modern classic. This is from the TV series 'firefly'
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me.
Leave the men where they lay
They'll never see another day
Lost my soul, lost my dream
You can't take the sky from me.
I feel the black reaching out
I hear its song without a doubt
I still hear and I still see
That you can't take the sky from me.
Lost my love, lost my land
Lost the last place I could stand
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
And you can't take the sky from me.
This improvisation may sound little political, but it's not. Just take it as humour.. or as motivation because there are similarities.
If it is saving the world and protecting the environment that we choose as our fight, then it so far has being a loosing battle. Electric Vehicles were subjected to a huge and ridiculous tax all of a sudden, no incentive for Solar, forests are being cleared out, even the reserves, coal power plants being designed and built and so on...
Still, there are certain things politicians and big businesses can't take away from us...
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.
Take me out to the black
Cut down trees, build coal plants
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sun from me.
Take out forests, kill EVs
Bulldoze what we already have
Lost my soul, lost my dream
You can't take the sun from me.
Sell out everything we have
Store paddy in airports
I don't care, I'm still free
And you can't take the sun from me.
Lost our jobs, lost our land
Lost the last place we could stand
Bring ETCA and ruin it all
But you cant take the sun from me
Politicians, parties and governments come and go. They are not in this for us.
Get an EV, go solar and never step inside a petrol shed or a CEB/LECO again.
Save the environment and get your freedom as well while you still can, folks!
After all, They can't take the sky (sun) from us!
