Stab

Stab a life and
it will bleed;
did you believe
The Mother we call Earth
was any different?

You know Her
blood is toxic
you understood
and knew the risks
yet still you stabbed Her
to generate more wealth
more ease of living,
more customers.

What a pity
your sick desire for
ease of life
does not extend
to Life itself.

— Race_9togo, May 24, 2010

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Earth Vicinity (within a five light-year radius), ZZC

Favorite Poets: John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Serendipity, Emily Dickenson, Kailashana, Charles Bukowski, Kabir, Rett, Dalton, W. B. Yeats, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many other Neopoet poets; Neopoet has heavily influenced my poetry and my ability to write it well.

Critiques

xena465

16 years ago

WoW powerful stuff

Sounds like you got that out your system good and proper. Superbly written Jim. Rosina xena465

Race_9togo

16 years ago

Nope

Not out of my system yet. It will be...when I see some BP executives picking up their filthy crude oil from our beaches and marshes with their bare hands. It might get out of my system then. But I seriously doubt it. Thanks Rosina, Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race

Seren

16 years ago

Dear Jim

This was powerful stuff and it rung true with what we are doing to this beautiful planet and its no wonder shes spitting back at us and smiling as she does it who could blame her ?... loved your poem you got me ranting lol love and hugs JayCee ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")

Race_9togo

16 years ago

Mother Earth....

...needs a major enema. Too much impacted feces - oops, I mean OIL EXECUTIVES, my bad. ;D Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race

Lonnie

16 years ago

It couldn't have been said better!

Powerful, truthful, and wickedly concise! This poem screams for our attention to the problem of Global Excessiveness! Great, great piece of poetry!

Race_9togo

16 years ago

Thanks man,

As I wrote this, I kept wondering how many oil executives were sitting beside the heated pool outside their multi-million dollar mansions, sipping iced tea, watching the annihilation of the Gulf Coast on 52-inch screens while their stock bonuses reach into the billions, entire species die, and tens of thousands of citizens are being made destitute. I am a capitalist, dyed-in-the-wool, and even I cannot believe the sheer unadulterated greed of these creatures. Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race

Race_9togo

16 years ago

Thanks Louis

Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race