Some time ago, Kelly Hamel, a friend and fellow member of 'The Cowpasture Collective', which ran the Canal Street Coffeehouse and published the Merrimack Valley Progressive, wrote this poem. I was moved to make it into a song - a song for Earth Day:
If the River Could Speak
poem by Kelly Hamel
music by Tony Provencher
If the river could speak
of its worries and woes,
we would hear angry tears
in the sadness that flows.
If the meadow could speak
with a voice of its own,
we'd hear tell about people
who have hearts made of stone.
If the forests could scream
like a jet through the sky,
we would shudder with fear
as they toppled and died.
If the wind called your name,
as it sobbed through the trees,
and asked for your voice,
would you silently leave?
If the ocean turned red
from the blood of the earth,
would you still wash your hands
of the blame?
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