ego humanity desires to leave a record in stones
once we etched cuneiform symbols into soft clay or rocks
now we blow away mine entire huge mountains
bore sink drill holes into primeval past liquid oily soups
pristine was pastoral safer age planet earth before we harnessed atoms
learned how to deforest continents indifference melt polar ice caps
before blind greed; conventional, biological, chemical, nuclear warfares
threatened humanity all species in global event horizon extinctions
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
by trying to make our mark in history we destroy the same... we are a vain people. good poetry!