Cities grew more restless
Wicked, violent
As vegetables and fruit
Fresh meat and grain
Stopped coming in.
Insiders broke through barriers
By dark to plunder.
Outsiders were no longer
Safe or silent.
Tribal members gathered
Counseling in whisper
Prayer, thunder.
Let the cities die!
They'll kill each other first!
They'll starve this winter-
Next summer die of thirst!