Earth Day – April 22, 2026

Earth, locus of humankind
Without which, there’d be no
Warmth, community, or mind
Humans wouldn’t even be mythical

But for thousands of years,
We’ve tried to conquer,
Master and replace her
We kill and try to synthesize

Our basic Constituents,
But something’s always missing
Never quite as good as the original
Though we loudly claim otherwise.

Now, through purely human
Machinations, based on
Our hunger for power and greed,
We’ve cultivated the inexorable seed

Of all our extinction
Perhaps, even of sentience,
Till the next cosmic regeneration
And a new sort of evolution… (?)

–LE – 4/22/26