UNCARING MAN

We, the developed world, we rape

the rain forests for wood for middleclass homes,

we drill for oil in the Arctic wilderness for our own selfish greed.

We trawl the sees and take the fish for our fat bellies,

uncaring and naïve…

A dozen species are killed off every day, extinct

before their time and now no more but recent history.

Our atmosphere chokes on poison smog, ozone destroyed

sending UV rays down like laser bullets, skin cancer rife.

What will be next? Our world is part of us

but only I see that…

taking it for granted is a sin,

arrogant uncaring man raping her

like some two bit whore.