RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CLIMATE CHANGE
Nature Strikes Back
Nature betrays
Betrayed by man
Nature strikes back
Birds no longer passive
Recognize their mortal enemies
Band together in flocks and gaggles
Murders of crow
Oceans filled with toxic rage
Enough industrial waste to bury Africa
Enough poison for aquatic genocide
Tsunami winter is coming
Tsunami spring and summer
Vengeance of the sea gods
Poseidon and the leviathans
Wreaking havoc upon the land
The sky falls to a fevered howl
Angered at our indifference
Enraged at our willful negligence
Torrential wind and battering rain
Towers toppled and trees uprooted
Stripping the land of all monuments
To our never ending folly
Fire rips across the horizon
Converting lush green to dry brown
A barren cracked deserted land
No longer giving nourishment
No longer sustaining life
The earth cracks open
Angry molten lava springs forth
Four winds of destruction
Five directions to hell
A dream?
A vision ripped from the bowels?
The leanings of an overworked mind?
But fire bears no anger
Winds carry no rage
The rising sea seeks no vengeance
The abiding earth indifferent
We destroy ourselves
We take vengeance on ourselves
We have done this to ourselves
And we must make amends
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