If the world could fit in the palm of your hand,
If each forest fire blistered your fingers, if
The melting ice caused rivers in the lines of your skin,
If each ecosystem wiped out lay flat across your body,
Then would you care?
If the last polar bear made its solemn steps towards extinction,
And tracked across your chest,
Leaving tiny black pawprints where there had once been
A whole species
Then would you care?
If each fallen tree bruised you, and
The beautiful destruction rendered you blue and black.
If each wasted life shone through you like stars
And you could form cruel constellations through the air
Then would you care?
If the whole world could fit in the palm of your hand,
Then would you care?
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Author:
mozart (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: July 20th, 2017 11:35
- Comment from author about the poem: because the world is changing.
- Category: Nature
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Comments2
Once we are deprogrammed or unprogrammed, then they would care. As for me it was a bit of that and a bit of finding people aren't all as bad as I thought.
Great work of art!
Very good write. People just do not appreciate the world in which they live and are intent on destroying it.
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