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Stepping away from form and etiquette.......c/c?
My complete sympathy and utter sorrow for the ongoing tragedy in Japan. While this poem may imply deserved retribution, that is not how I feel. The writing of it simply means to speak from a side that can offer no excuse for the chaos it has visited upon human-kind.
I heard the distant rumble as you
chewed through breathing trees with your
technological teeth you ate
the air I need to breathe and
all the birds took off in flight with
panicked wings that beat to flee while your
civilized consumption
dined on every pore of me
Your cars your trains your
engines poisoned lungs until I choked
you tore black holes in
atmospheric skies with
what you smoked and
I was running to repair the very
air you need to live but I never will
catch up because God knows
you've more to give
My skin is scarred by
canyons of the tears
I've cried in vein while my
rivers wash your pesticides your oil
spills down my drain and now
the very earth you stand on is some
holocaustic brew and God alone knows
I keep running just so
I can live here too
but you are monsters of technology
and you rape the hand that feeds
making desperate predictions while
the earth around you bleeds and
mother nature earns your curses but
it's you who plants the seeds
that plant the seeds of your destruction
can't you feel that I have needs
And now you tremble at my anger
at my vengeance as I wreak
havoc on your homes with spewing
breath You hear me shriek and I
and I !! alone I tremble
'neath your quickly running feet
and send my stored up tears in oceans
to your doors for you to meet
In mindless pain I roar displeasure
for so many years of harm and all my anger
sends you reeling when
I rush past mother's arms and now
I'm drained of that emotion
as I gaze upon your pain
and I try soothing you with breezes
but I know I went insane and all of you
who are my children I have hurt you
once again and I am sorrow I am
rendered broken hearted by the death
upon the creatures that depend upon my
gentle, kinder breath I send you
scarlet skies of shame to cloud the
horror I created and the promise that
for now, at least, my anger has abated
and I mourn oh God I mourn this
devastation by my hand far more than I
have ever mourned your
disrespect of all my land
I see my breeze caress your
tear-stained cheeks as eyes gaze to
tomorrow as we all find hope to bridge
the gap between our lives and
sorrow
8 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I swear that was only your true stream of consciousness all the way through, no pause to work words to make them sound better...you were exhaling this like a final breath as, sinking, you know the water will fill your lungs upon next inhalation. That is how I perceived it, like a compulsion beyond your willpower to control. Reflex probably held in check since the knowledge came to you, and guess what? It is the only poem about the whole horrific sad situation that actually honors the PEOPLE GOING THROUGH IT...we aren't.
Michael asked a question about Hiroshima right before we got the news. This one isn't our fault but I bet it will also be forgotten by the mainstream media society as quickly, just like the Gulf spill, just like Katrina. But Pearl Harbor, Nazis and the horrors that people of Jewish faith endured? Still subjects talked about often. And THAT is because of money to be made and other things being covered up.So what I will leave here in conclusion is this:
Hiram had(has?) a dream or goal or wish of getting people to help at sites of the Gulf spill damage THIS SUMMER because, he said then, "people will have forgotten except those still coping with the foul mess in their environment. The help would actually be given for no reason but because of the need. I wonder if he will be there? I believe he certainly will.
Sin, I truly consider you one of the few that has always kept it real. Kudos to the 10th power. You RAWK!!
Source(s): EDIT: I did not mean at all to invalidate any of the events that I used as examples, I felt I needed to clarify that. It is only the 'trendiness of todays media oriented society and what disasters are popular and that is that! Pffffft! - ?Lv 71 decade ago
There is an asteroid far off in an elliptical orbit that will one day cross paths
with our chaotic planet. In time we will have three moons and no humans
to witness and compose poems about. If humans continue their present
course, a hit from an asteroid will be the ultimate tree
falling silently in wasted forests, no ears to hear or eyes to witness.
The odds are not in our favor, as 99.99% of all species to inhabit this
planet have gone extinct.
A very interesting and poignant poem you have written.
- Yesu BenLv 71 decade ago
You are wise. Seeing it from the "other" point of view is a thinker's process. But I don't think Mother Nature is sorry for what she did. Justice is simply reacting in a blind way. Injecting emotions into nature is something only a true poet can do. Excellent pen!
- 1 decade ago
Outstanding, message Sin, even if you were standing outside to share it with us. Kudos
- Anonymous1 decade ago
oh, but my! you have put into words what I would have wanted but my mind is about as berserk as mother nature
I felt this to my core, and we will feel much more before we ruin the world forever..
thank you!
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I Loved It!!
..Sin...I remembered something as I read....
"This is going to hurt me..more than it hurts you"
You rocked it girl!