Lo and Behold!

The world of grasslands being overrun into a world of pavement and concrete.

Lo and behold!

The monstrous crowds of skyscrapers;

Rising from the concrete slabs below,

Up towards the grey darkened skies.

 

Smoke curdles from river-side factories,

Curling and swirling,

Floating and coating the air in binds of smoke.

 

People stalk the darkened streets,

Full of discarded cans and wrappers.

Lamps flicker close to nocturnal alley-ways,

Where monstrous appetites loiter and wait.

                                                           

 A grey-filled world of concrete and bricks,

Grey skies, grey ground and grey waste.

Mother Nature’s tears flow unseen,

As human nature’s greed goes unchecked.

 

For past the hardened streets,

Lay patches of woodland goodness.

Small places where the wildness hasn’t been choked,

Where this wild dwell, hunt and breed.

 

However, the future is quickly setting in.

These “homo sapiens” who are creating this “progress”

Of cutting down homes which they see as just trees,

Of churning up homes which they see as just ground,

And of covering sacred soil which they see as just Earth,

Is delivering what is to be every existing creature’s future.

 

Well, shame on you “Wise Man”.

For you are not wise,

And you are not making progress.

You are havoc and destruction rolled into one.

 

What happened to the great Worships of the Sun and the Moon?

The rebirth of the Sun,

The passing of the Moon stages.

Why is there no longer Great Worship of our Earth?

 

Why do we not bow before Methuselah?

Nor morn the felling of the mighty Prometheus?

Why is the time to revel in our natural riches

So far removed in the past?

 

Instead, our ancient habitat is slowly disappearing,

Filling up with concrete jungles

And hardened ground.

A world of green and light is transforming to grey and plight.

Reviews

[Tony Jordan]

Very strong and vivid imagery here Faith Mairi. The planet is being swallowed up indeed by industry and greed but I am minded of the many, many sites around the world that were 'recently' rediscovered by explorers Angkor Wat for example - totally grown over - the temples of the pharoahs - the roman baths and fine houses that have been unearthed by archaeologists and what they tell me is that Nature will wait and Nature will overcome our civilisation, in time like those civilisations and carry on with her gardening of the whole planet.