DEATH OF A BROKEN PLANETA Poem by ROBERT DAVIDSON
DEATH OF A BROKEN PLANET By ROBERT DAVIDSON Often it seems like I have betrayed my world like a rough lover, mauling bruising his woman in the dark - leaving marks upon her skin In my bomb shelter - I perch on the very edge as greenhouse gases befoul the air and choke me like traffic fumes. I watch my planet burn out like the woman I once raped and left to rot Along my streets the newsboys cry the old burnt-out world is dead - a stillborn babe as sick cities fall like crumbling Babylons My own stumblings are on stony ground as my planet withers - becomes a barren moonscape with detonations inevitable as fallout. Fear crawls like a lizard on my skin while mushroom clouds maul her torn-apart face Oh yes, I buried the waste, that one day will poison my child. The broken body of my world lies prostrate like my wife when beaten by her husband - Such was the surrender I wanted But she will not be mine to rob and rape again for my broken planet dies - Her womb becomes my tomb. Copyright 2008 robertdavidson © 2008 ROBERT DAVIDSONReviews
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