Pissed away the rivers, bays and lakes with our dams, oils
and chemicals
Wasted my time so haplessly drinking, fighting and carrying
on for the girls
Wasted so much fuel on thoughtless commuting, vacationing
and shopping
Pissed away my brain on anger, fear, jealousy and desire
Tossed out unopened and unread the lessons the elders had
struggled so desperately to send
Ignored the many signals from the earth that our time had
grown so dangerous and short
Ignored the melancholy head shaking by those girls with
their long brown-hair
Tossed out without a thought so many things the kids now dig
for, just trying to re-use
Made so much senseless noise that we always had to shout,
just to hear our own thoughts
Now the silence we always feared is no longer pregnant, but
simply empty
Now our smoke and our dust does not block out the heat and
the sun like it used to
Made a lot of money but always somehow spent quite a bit
more than we earned
Scoffed at all the hard-working people who made my foolish
lifestyle possible
Destroyed habitats we knew we did not need with those
self-satisfied and knowing smirks
Destroyed relationships that then seemed unimportant with my
casually caustic sarcasm
Scoffed at the fuzzy science and junk math of those limp
environmental wackos
Trampled on the feelings of those who even tried to help to
see me through
Gutted the fragrant valleys to extract the coal which we
then burned to foul the air
Gutted myself writhing on the poisoned spikes of the
invisible fences of safe society
Trampled the carefully tended fields on our endless marches
to war’s glory
Fouled my lungs and brain and liver with tobacco and alcohol
and propaganda
Derided their calls for sustainability as unnecessary and
far too expensive in jobs and money
Derided my own efforts as puny and insignificant until I
finally gave them up
Fouled our landfills, roadways and suburbs right along with
the blessed rain and the snow
Sacrificed my wanderlust for the prison-style safety of the
prairie dog cubicle farm
Sold them on phony religious paradises in return for their
tithes, obedience and souls
Sold them out to overseas suppliers, laid them off and took
home our fat bonuses
Sacrificed as little as we could and mistook dumb luck for
god’s eternal blessing
Walked away from the little messes that I created time and
time again
Fouled our entire sweet nest under god’s direction and with
the help of our just laws
Fouled up the lives of all the good people who tried in vain
just to give me shelter
Walked away from the mine wastes, chemical spills, abandoned
factories and the unemployed
Pissed away my few allotted days and then asked why I should
not have even more
Pissed away, in a heartbeat, our hard-earned respect from
the rest of the world
Pissed away the many chances we were granted to even try
to do what was right
Pissed away our precious children’s futures as we lived our
lives to the fullest, just for today
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