Saturday, May 30, 2020

Earth's Revenge

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES


Earth’s Revenge

I’ve always sneered at people
Who assign human emotions
To inanimate things

A planet has no feelings
Its actions have no motive

It is it does that’s all there is
But consider this: 

All systems have defense mechanisms
The human body has antibodies
It employs in the destruction
Of viral enemies
Every society develops herd immunity
Antibodies on a grand scale

A planet is a system too
A contained system of great complexity
A system under constant attack
By the human species
A grand civilization dedicated
To destroying ecosystems
Threatening the health and balance
Of the whole

What if we are the virus?
What if the virus is the antibody?
The earth’s defense against us

Now it begins to make sense




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