Chimps with Large Brains – a poem

Chimps with Large Brains

 

Chimps with large brains

And capricious natures

Stomping across the world

With no limiting legislature.

 

Out of control;

Without limits or empathy;

And for the rest of nature

There’s no sympathy.

 

Clearing the land

Of all that has life,

To create a plastic jungle

Where only problems are rife.

 

What are we doing?

Creating such ruin?

Is there no way out of this cul-de-sac?

Is there no way back?

 

Opher – 29.4.2019

 

 

We might have large brains but we sure don’t always do things intelligently. We are our world’s worst enemy.

With burgeoning numbers and careless disregard we are leaving a heap of problems in our wake.

Have we the intelligence to put it right?