Mother Nature Will Kill Us All Someday, and I Don’t Blame Her for It
generation after generation, we took from Gaia
Ekphrastic inspired by “To the Light” by Robin Rose Graves
Generation after generation
We took from Gaia
We planted our skyscrapers, where forests once stood
We fractured her skin to dig for crude oil
We killed everything she gave us
Not always for food,
Always for profit
Generation after generation
After generation
We filled her oceans with our trash
Our shit, our poison
One day, she had enough
Gaia began to plant her roots
in us
Drain our blood
Drink our bone marrow
To feed herself
To take from the takers
Until none were left
We should have expected this
someday, after all
we coined the phrase
“The first law of nature,
Kill or be killed”