Margaret Atwood - They are hostile nations lyrics

I

In view of the fading animals
The proliferation of sewers and fears
The sea clogging, the air nearing extinction

We should be kind, we should
Take warning, we should forgive each other

Instead we are opposite, we
Touch as though attacking
The gifts we bring even in good faith maybe
Warp in our hands to
Implements, to manoeuvres

Ii

Put down the target of me
You guard inside your binoculars
In turn I will surrender

This aerial photograph (your vulnerable
Sections marked in red)
I have found so useful

See, we are alone in
The dormant field, the snow
That cannot be eaten or captured

Iii

Here there are no armies
Here there is no money
It is cold and getting colder

We need each others’
Breathing, warmth, surviving is the only war
We can afford, stay

Walking with me, there is almost time
If we can only make it as far as

The (possibly) last summer