~Hell on Earth~
They say hell hath no fury
Like a woman scorned
Well we have scorned this mother of ours
Like no child of hers before
We have stripped her body bare
and sucked her teat dry
We’ve tried to beat her to submission
and ignored her anguished cries
And even if humanity
attempts escape into the sky
There is NO way to escape
the father’s ever watchful eye
In outer space
away from mother
is a lonely place to die
And mars is not the place to be
For a resource hungry race
That couldn’t recognise true wealth
If it slapped them in the face
We are now blessed with abundance
But even that seems not enough
Infinite growth, on finite planet
Is a monumental bluff
And if we do not learn to share
and embrace equality
The primal world will bear the brunt
Of our ways of gluttony
The white man might be spared the death
That comes quick and without warning
But while everything around us quickly dies
We’ll feel the heat and even rich men will start squirming
As they powerlessly face
their imminent demise
We are approaching our extinction
and aware of it
Yet those who wield the scepter
Would rather not admit
and would prefer to line their pockets
while their house is lined in flames
They’ll have to learn that there are violent ends
to their violent games
Dominating the indigenous
the women and the weak
will only further seal our fate
Which at this rate is looking bleak
If we don’t act before we know
we’ll reach the point of no return
In that case there’ll be no future
for which we all so deeply yearn
Now is the only time for action
To prevent the chain reaction
Perhaps this earth life was a test
Laid before the human race
To determine our deserving
Of reaching outer space
We have potential to ascend
As a peace civilisation
But if it’s hell in which we strand
it is of our own creation
Though we have the rocket power
If our direction stays distorted
From this womb that is our earth
We’ll be the ones being aborted
For nature and the human kind
Were irreparably misaligned
~Kagiso~
This poem is dedicated to our mother
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Art by
Alex Grey
