recycle, reuse, redemption?

[ellyssian]

recycle, reuse, redemption?
July 17, 2005

meaningless
are the coins
that tumble from your hand
pointless
the precious metals
that adorn you
useless
the expensive clothes
which wrap around you like a funeral shroud

the earth bleeds
from the steel you thrust into its heart
it smothers
from the concrete and asphalt covered
over wounds carved
to gather ores and coals
lime and sands
the earth chokes
from the filth you make

but the earth
goes on
and you
do not
and upon your foul corpse
it feeds

Copyright (c) 2005 Everett Ambrose Warren