Monday, December 21, 2020

As If

 

-------As If-------

 

There is smoke in the air,

an angst throughout the body

where the forest is being cut.

 

They speak of progress

as if the soya beans and timber could 

somehow 

take the place of home.

 

As if 

the intricately 

intertwined 

together 

body

 

Beautiful 

one, 

Earth 

and Human,

was disposable.

 

It is in the lonely, 

unreckoned-with 

corners of the mind

that greed has room to grow

 

As if 

to fill a void

of its own desperate making.

 

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