Into The Woods: Poem Analysis

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their entitlement is suffocating His great hills terrifying trees and scaring the leaves they claim His land as their own they’re closing in, getting closer never content with what He has given egotistical, greedy, violence is on its way pack up your life and run, run, run collect your happiness and hide it in your heart gather your infants, they are heartless and cruel they shoot until every blade of grass bleeds for your children’s legacy run, run, run trees are burning and fire is building blood is spilling and bodies are falling run, run, run pack up your life to flee brutality desert the familiar and follow the tears
He will direct our paths into the forest to start our lives over and begin anew

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