A Land Gone Black Global Nightmare Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

A Land Gone Black global nightmare
seems to be a spectral image that haunts
global interaction political world trade

commerce sets base minimum price
virgin land is exploited for all resources
ripped greedily but not wisely ground

renewable resources solar wave wind
are discarded with industrial grip contempt
for decades by oiled robber baron despots

once I thought in a Moment In Time

“The flash of the president’s pen
deals with the life of men.
Starting a war settling a score

all happens so far away.”
But the poor ever suffer among us
eyes of sick starving children accuse us...

“the soldiers of petroleum
buy a whore, a dime, a quarter.
dine on the flesh of children; ...”


Inspired by the poem ‘A Land Gone Black’ by Eric Cockrell. “The flash of the president’s pen” quotation is from the poem ‘Moment In Time’ by Terence George Craddock. Second quotation “the soldiers of petroleum” is from the poem ‘A Land Gone Black’ by Eric Cockrell.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock