The Future is Burning
Seventeen thousand fingers of greed
Clawing to the sky –
Great black maws of doom
Pouring forth their acrid breath.
Living flesh is thrown upon
Great pyres of mammon
As the corporate machine
Consumes the air we breathe.
Seventeen thousand inhalations
Of pristine fresh air
Transforming oxygen and life
Into power and wealth.
Black holes sucking in the green
Seventeen thousand pools of fire
In a frenzy of greed
As millions of creatures fry.
In those infernos of hell
Screams are lost in the roar
Along with the banging
Of the nails in nature’s coffin.
Opher – 27.8.2019
I wrote this because I am so appalled by what is happening in the Amazon. Bolsonaro, Trump and Johnson are carving up the world for profit and destroying billions of years of nature! It’s a tragedy of monumental proportions. It makes me ashamed to be human.