J'accuse
What was the bright idea of making this world uninhabitable?
Your shortcomings, capitalists and politicians,
will be as grim as your shortsightedness,
which turned the whole world to a mess
by your voluptuosness of reptile greed,
you crazy world seducers of industrialization,
putting the world's riches and its future in your pocket,
making the destruction of the world your gold
which you could not bring with you anyway
and leaving nothing else behind than world pollution,
poisoned future as a curse for generations,
you the greed exploiters, presidents and autocrats,
oil billionaires, industrial tycoons, dictators,
wildlife hunters and destroyers and above all military pimps,
who made arms, violence and killing the world's greatest industry.
The sickness of the planet cry out loud against you all
and most of all the rising oceans, dirtied by your oil
with coral reefs consumed by your pollution,
the tuna fish completely disappearing even from the depths
and dolphins, whales and other breathing friendly beings of the sea
caught up in drifting nets to suffocate and drift forever
testifying by their corpses to man's criminal irrationality.
The seas will rise to vengeance against man,
his tyranny and arrogance, his carelessness and hubris,
while we thinking and responsible downtrodden rainbow warriors
are the ones to suffer for the greatest crime in history,
the shortsighted destruction of the world by man,
the ones to remedy the mess and clean it up,
for which a generation must be sacrificed
until the world perhaps can be inhabitable once again.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-12-04 at 10:27
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