Page 12 - YSCC poetry booklet 2021

An Act of Betrayal

It’s an era that need be forgotten, yet not be forgotten
Drowning in a dark cloud of unforeseeable death
Laughing and dancing, we glorified in our “mothers” black blood
Visions of impending wealth fueling our greed
The vampire-like appetites were insatiable
Our quest for mammon initiating an act of betrayal

As though imitating Christ’s Crucification
Generation after generation, we made ourselves like the Romans
Each lashing of greed leaving cavernous wounds
We tore from her body the hair and skin that had sustained our very existence
Blood and water gushing from her perforated body
In our ignorance we relished in her continuing demise
Deeper and deeper we continued to burrow

From the very depths of her soul we had taken and continued to take
Thousands of years had she breastfed us from her bosom
Greed had converted us into churlish children
Her dying body heat barbequing her children in sneering vengeance
Her dying throes awakened a generation to an unnerving reality
Mother Nature was dying
The Earth was dying

Now she lies idly on an operating table under no anesthesia
Mankind seeking to surgically replace every lost hair he exploited
Beautiful scars abandoned on a body once festered with large gaping holes
We cannot sustain ourselves on such vile blood lust
Rather we look towards the sun and the wind to save us
We find ourselves in a quest for clemency,

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