Hate Billion

by Edbreathe

Thursday 27th April 2023 11:27 pm

8 Billion

Who will win ?

Murderous mankind

Super species

Sweep all before

Leave a wasteland behind

10 Biblical plagues have nothing on us

A billion locusts , a drop in the ocean.

What will stop us?

War, disease, drought, fire , greed , fear ,?

Natures weapons blunt and useless

Against the tide of filth we call mankind

Scoured and hollowed

Carcasses of the compatriot animal kingdom

Screaming ,staggering ,perishing in our shadow.

But we march on spewing our way to oblivion

Let’s hope we leave a vestige of life

To rebuild their earth when we’ve left

For one Green Man is stronger than all.

27/04/2023. 23:00-23:25

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 30th Apr 2023 08:56

Thanks, Pete. A devastating poem. I still think there is hope, but maybe it will turn out to be forlorn.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 28th Apr 2023 10:30

Thanks Ed.
I agree with Manish- a cracking last line.

I've told my children, who were concerned about what they perceived as their impotence - concerned as they are with keeping a roof over their heads - that as long as they do whatever they are able, their consciences are clear.

Pete (edbreathe)

Fri 28th Apr 2023 10:13

Keith/Manish,
Thanks for comments , very much appreciated, I know it’s a subject on which much has been written, and I feel kind of helpless to do anything , but hopefully a few lines will somehow help us all along the way

keith jeffries

Fri 28th Apr 2023 08:12

Ed,
This poem took the air from my lungs as I was held in suspense as the poem unfolded. You have summed up my feelings in their entirety. On those occasions when I vent my feelings about the world and all that ails us, I know from this poem that I am not alone. A tirade which should not be spoken but shouted from the hilltops.
Thank you for this.
Keith

Manish Singh Rajput

Fri 28th Apr 2023 04:34

Powerfully written Ed, every single line is evocative! It lures in any reader from the very beginning and ends with an uplifting message of acting towards a good change now, for a better and greener tomorrow!
The last line is concisely said - "For one Green Man is stronger than all".
Thank you.

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