Humanity's Demise

Humanity’s Demise (For Earth Day)

 

 

As the world evolved

from primordial soup,

agitated by alien microbes,

hitch hiking on meteors, comets

and happenstance,

to the emergence

of conscious beings,

humanity’s footsteps

left deep trails.

We altered the landscape,

created empires

that rose and fell,

until today.

 

Today, our footprints

are so vast and wide,

we have unleashed through

anarchy and chaos,

the chase for maximum profits,

our own demise.

 

We will extinct ourselves,

not from meteors,

or solar storms,

nor some alien invasion,

but from the small,

the unseen,

those viruses and bacteria,

once balanced in nature,

now let loose on the world

by the laws of supply and demand,

by a system of capital-imperialism.

 

Long gone are the People

who painted on cave walls,

waged no wars for empire,

and could talk with nature,

animals,

and the night sky.

 

As sad as this may seem,

the Earth sighed a

breath of relief.

 

Aztec Warrior/redzone 4.22.20

Author's Note

....thanks for reading....

Reviews

[Ruth]

I have often wondered on the people who drew on cave walls and some of those drawings were and still are prophetic in nature :) I of course love this piece and have missed reading your writing Redzone...Gaia has her own plans and shall reign regardless with or without humanity, she is the true power that is and shall ever be and is claiming back her lands. Skies have cleared, storms naturally cool the air, the animal kingdom are happy and roam freely and trees are thankful for room to stretch undisturbed. The next stage will always be up to the people as well as the powers that be but the people have forgotten they have their say and their actions count towards the whole picture :) Brilliant poetry as always hon, magnificent :)

[redzone]

it is a profound truth that far too few people know or accept that Gaia existed long before the arrival of humans and will exist long after we are gone... profound, because of people understood this and grasped it deeply, they would rise up and stop the anarchy of the way things are produced and exchanged... they would organize society in ways that created enough for everyone at the same time making sure our home was in better shape for those who come after....

liked how you saw this poem Ruth, your insights and how it is up to us, all of us to make the world right, in balance....

thanks Ruth, for your comment and visit....

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is amazing....makes me want to write a poem on a cave wall.
i really like how "extinct" is used as a verb here. Maximum profit gained from your use of language.
where are we going, Curt? From here?
I tried to hitchhike on a meteor once, but unfortunately it just sped by, so i gave it the finger.
j.

[redzone]

those damn comets never slow down, unless they crash into something and then there is an extinction of another sort... the dinosauers can testify to this....

thank you Jacob, I wish we could write some of our poetry on cave walls, perhaps then in 40,000 years (if humanity is still around) people will read and be in awe of our abilities and understanding of nature and balance... unfortunately the only wall painting they may find is the graffiti on tenement walls and halls.... some of which by the way are very prolific and quite good.... it is a shame that those subway cars were repainted.... but then we do have Bansky....

we are going straight to hell Jacob unless we rid ourselves of this system and quickly too...

[Paul Bell]

Think you're right. Blue skies have appeared, you can breathe better now.
The planet for a time will repair itself, but not for long, man has a destiny for self-destruction.

[redzone]

the arrogance of those in power have never truly believed that the world existed for a few billion years before even the first signs of life emerged, those small microbes for at ocean's edge... they stand in the way of people coming to understand how to live and share our world... it will be up to us, regular people, to learn and do what is necessary to NOT extinct ourselves.... the small things we see today show that it is possible to do this, but we will have to rid ourselves of these powers that be who rule everything, at least for the moment in time....

thanks so much for your visit and for your comment Paul, I really enjoyed reading it...

[Paul Bell]

It's just as well the world didn't industrialise at the same time, small mercies.