Figuratively Speaking

Figuratively Speaking

Could humanity be as fleas…

trying to walk the dog.
It seems to me

we have gone whole hog
We have run amok

on land and space
and have left hardly

a natural place.
We have pillaged

and raped

and tunneled

and mined,
removed mountains

and rerouted rivers
...and tried our best

to even change time.
Gone into space

on rocket rides
and all the while

the Earth abides
until at last

she rises up
and from our hands

rips the cup
Earthquakes

and tidal waves
hurricanes, tornadoes

and typhoons
are just some

of the lessons

of the doomed
and new diseases
which do

as they please...
bringing humanity

almost to its knees..
Could it be that Earth
is just trying

to shake off her fleas...

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