Earth Day: Forty Years After

Ninety- nine percent
Of all the billions
Of species of life forms
That have ever been here
Are already extinct
Fossil and fuel

Iron, Oxygen, Silicon,
Magnesium, Nickel and Sulfur
Nitrogen, Titanium
Nano, Nano, Micro-
Nuclear Gamma
Humming, humming, humming
Telecommunicable

Home sweet home
Mud and stone
Human is a virus
Blood and bone
With some strange animosity toward trees
And I don't wanna be one anymore
Not really

When I really think about it,
Not a great many of the other things still alive on this planet care much for us.
Really; just the dog and the cat, and can we really be sure about the cat?
I wanna be something that can be friends with all the other earthlings.
If not friends, at least respected again,
Welcome back in the wild world,
The real;
What there is left of it

I will stop eating them,
Most of them;
It's oh so hard,
All of the beautiful creatures taste so good

I will stop hiding from them,
Guilt free and at peace;
Waiting patiently

Spinning, spinning,
Third from;
Can the human make it until the sun's funeral?
Or are we truly a cancer destined to kill it's host?
Viral

Home sweet home
And I'm sorry