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DEAR EARTH

Dear EarthThank you for embracing…and cuddling…and feeding…and healing…and entertaining…and challenging meThere are many horrors you experienceOur erosion which causes your fertility demotionIs a shameYet we hold our flaws like flags…hoisting it to do further damage…everydayYour trees feed usBut we slaughter them like fowls without replacing themYour sky covereth usBut we smoke it dry and face […]

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THE LOWER WE DESCEND

Waterless riversTreeless forestsLessonless educationPolless politicsSoon, childless childhoods will pave way…for lifeless livingAs child adults destroy the fabrics, …the very fabrics of our nationThinking their stomachs a now to fill…without future plans IICan’t learning beat the ignorance of division?Can’t wisdom quench the fires of greed?Can’t patriotism arrest the desires to feed selves…as opposed to the national […]