Cocoon

In my cocoon
Don’t ask me of the world outside
The headlines
The wars, the destruction

To stay on the road
To stay in my house
To buy my food

Don’t ask me
Why they bomb
Why — in my name — they level
And annihilate
People I’ve never known

I don’t know
Just let me be —
What can I do
Where could I go
Beyond this world —
This world out there

Away from taxes —
Roads, and the news
All the horrors
And the madness

Where upon this earth
Could I — would I go
To escape it all

Why talk of it —
Why spoil the dinner
The evening
Just let it be

Wherever I am —
What would you — could you do
Or I —
What could anyone
Ever do

By seeing — knowing —
Admitting or speaking
By sharing —
And standing

Upon this ground
Where you are
Where I am —
What else could there be

Than what’s here —
You, in your cocoon
And me, in mine

Just let me be —
Let us be —
In our cocoons