What a pleasant way to begin a day
Walking my dogs thru this patch of woods
The last remaining green oasis in the asphalt jungle.
Birds sing, chipmunks scurry
Groundhogs burrow and deer pass.
Then they arrived with a sound like thunder
Orange and yellow “monsters”
Leveling the trees and scraping the ground bare
Making way for another vacant office building in want of a tenant
In the name of progress
It only took minutes
The trees were gone
The ground lay barren
Distressed catbirds circled and cried
As the giant shredder devoured the fallen trees that housed their nest
Cry birds Cry
Your nest is destroyed, your babies are gone
In the name of progress
Run chipmunks Run
Your home is no more
In the name of progress
Bye deer and groundhogs Bye
There is no place for you
In the name of progress
In less than a day Paradise lost
In the name of progress
Oh! How our lives have been enriched!
In the name of progress
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
The world has changed and not always for the better. one tends to forget the more brutal aspects of 'progress'. Thanks for bringing it up.