Decay

What have we done...?

Lush canopies shatter light into shards,

Shards fall on linear paths to form arrays,

A landscape portrait of a world that's marred,

This world can not repair others' decay.

Once flourishing plateaus were filled with life

are now deserts suffering from death and strife.

Leveled plains scar the face where flesh once was,

Skin stripped from niche for parts for cars.

Mountains crumble and cave in on themselves,

All for one, that one is us, for ourselves.

Mighty rivers reduced to trickling streams,

Bleeding bark fills these hallowed forests' ranges,

This world has lost a vital weapon; dreams.

The dreams of determined minds that would change

the damage and work done by those deranged.

Tormented souls call out to living beings,

Their cries fall dead on deafened ears' canals,

Blind eyes prevent listeners from seeing.

We've lost our home because of foolish greed.

No farmers are left to perform the deed;

to rid the soul garden of deadly weeds.

Now, we fall into despair and bleed.

Reviews

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

This is awareness poetry as i call it... you speaking for the Earth, the people, giving them a voice. Such a perfect title.. and your words are powerful begging to be heard not to fall on deaf ears and I hear you and agree .. you have written a beautiful poem packed with images we close our eyes too all too often.
This is one to be proud of ... !

Chloe

[Mason]

Thank you, Livenrite. I find your comment amusingly ironic, as I have always said the same of others writers that I've encountered. Thank you for commenting! ^^

[Livenrite]

Wow I wish I could write like that..most of my poetry doesn't need a lot of analyzing to understand it. A great write. Thanks for sharing:)

[MaskOfSanity]

read it. likes it. who am i to give advice. it was good.

[Michael X]

wow, this is absolutely well written and expressed, i like the powerful nature of the flow and the force behind the thought, that is.. the idea,
an earth decaying, excellent job.

[Dylan]

This poem has beautiful imagery, I hope you can add on to this.

[azlamalo]

wow this is really cool