Impiricide and regicide,

when they have set the mass aside,

is ethical and nothing to deride.

But patricide and matricide,

where relatives in blood collide,

destroy the human family inside.

Fratricide, sororicide,

comprehensive siblicide,

complete domestic homicide,

and kinship's cast aside.

Bereft of adult kith beside,

the way is clear for foeticide.

but failing that, there is infanticide.

Alien from all they pride,

humans turn to genocide,

with ovens, bombs and deadly cyanide.

Complete and total specicide,

is brought about with pesticide.

No mammal life survives to run and hide.

More death comes through insecticide.

By greenhouse gas the world is fried,

and plants are wiped away with herbicide.

Fungicide, bactericide

and vicious, virucide,

extinguishing the great divide,

from life to life denied.

At last collective suicide,

completes this ghastly Gaiacide,

when all of life has died.