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Published: 2014-05-12 22:03:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 149; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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Twenty Years from Now
I’m walking down the street
Gravel skids around my feet.
And I look up at the sky, it’s foggy grey, like it will die.
I turn right to watch the cars, spitting smoke in billows high,
And I trace the wisps until they dissipate while on the fly.
The oil shines in puddles that are sickening to see.
The smell of gasoline penetrates even into trees.
The leaves are yellow now, and it’s simply not the fall.
Beyond the street I hear a raven’s raucous croaking call.
Somewhere out there, there is a herder,
Somewhere far away from here,
Somewhere there’s a naturalist who simply watches deer.
Not a gunshot she will hear. Not one will she allow.
But poachers will still escape her daily watching, some-how.
The geese will migrate south.
Some won’t survive their flight.
An airplane’s speeding form shall instigate a mortal plight.
The ice melts at a record speed,
And we still ask: “what for?”
Hey guys, we are the ones waging the world-wars.
Time is running out,
It's too easy to see.
“We won’t be much in 50 years.” Hawking has decreed.
If we stand back and just let things go,
What’s the price that we will pay?
Rejection from our Mother Earth:
A self-made doomsday.
