The Earth is Old

The Earth is Old

A Poem by John Butler
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Planet Earth is on it's last legs

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The Earth is old and jaded in a wrinkled mantle
Her flesh carved and served on a nuclear platter while the dust settles
Like cobwebs in a dark cave where spiders choose to live
Away from the light as the dark covers her sorrows
Mother Earth is barren now and old age settles on her shoulders
As She looks back on a time when her youth flourished
Before the cancer of Humanity ate her innards like a starving pariah
Stooped and bent in two as the universe weeps with pity
The Earth is old and jaded in a wrinkled mantle
Tears softly falling on her plains as she succumbs to Humanity

© 2016 John Butler


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Added on March 30, 2016
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John Butler
John Butler

Dublin, Ireland



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I enjoy a good read, lighthearted and humourous mostly. Inspired by: Con Houlihan one of Ireland's legendary writers! He was a great sportswriter and enhanced his writing with an eloquence of.. more..

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