A Red Sky

A red sky dripping
oozing blood
backdrop of
society
civilization

progressive pretense
crusted and
smothered in
disease ash
blackish grayish
poverty death
destroying every
natural thing it
touches

vaunted techno-
progress dealing
death efficiently
profoundly
inexorably

Earth’s progeny
feed – decline
cloth – decline
house – decline
we’ve chosen a
sixth major extinction
for greed’s sake
for profit
for ‘progress’

humanity but a virus
blight on Terrafirma
which will remain
once we’re all
gone – justice
no more nor
less than we
deserve

maybe turn it
around, I suppose
but hope is slim
extinction
imminent
by nature or
our techno-genocide
ecocide
suicide
nuclear
biologic
climatic

–LE