A scab upon the planet
Like a scab
That keeps growing.
A cancer
That eats away.
A river
That erodes its banks.
A fungus
On an agar dish.
Human civilisation
Spreads its canker
Across the planet.
It grows,
Expands
And consumes
All it touches.
It mindlessly
Reduces
All that dares to live
To dust.
Opher – 2.5.2019
I was sitting thinking of the many hopelessly overcrowded cities I have visited across the world with their sprawling suburbs, ramshackle slums and piles of trash, rubble and polluted dust. How they have devoured what once were beautiful landscapes teeming with life and turned them into ugliness.
They really are a cancer eating away at the planet.
I remember years and years ago, my father saying people are like a cancer to the earth. I agree.
It is such a shame. If things were run differently it could all be a different place.