I wish to step

Out on to soil

Beyond all of this

Turmoil.

Into a Place

That in its span

Has never known

The touch of Man.

I would kneel there

If i could,

As a supplicant

And brood-

With my Attention

Worship ground

Run my hand

‘Long every mound

Upon the grass

And bark, as well

I would savor

Every smell

The sights, the sounds

The feelings, deep.

I would treasure all 

And weep.

All the eons

Earth had seen

I would witness it 

Again.

Plowed the fields

Sowed our seeds

We neglected 

All her needs.

Timeless Present

Pressing close

I would Love

Its every rose.

Bloody petal

Razor thorn

There, upon it

We are born.

From Earth we rise

To her return

Epic cycle

We would spurn.

Struggling

On legs to stand

We have endured

Every brand.

Every wound

From every beast

We have conquered 

And now Feast.

Endless eating

Constant Need

We have captured them

And Feed.

Generational 

Our Greed

They are just

A different Breed.

Stripped 

Of dignity,

Our slaves.

We deny them

Even space.

Call them “cattle”

Call them “ours”

We deliver

Endless scars.

Crowded herds 

Of numbered “meat”

Suffering

Beneth our feet.

They’re just animals

We say

Even as we 

Stomp and bray.

Senseless cruelty 

Rotten soul

We are relentless

In our toll.

Mad perversion

Vile role 

We must castrate

Every bull.

And impregnate 

Every sow

Rape the Life

From every cow. 

Butcher calves

Then drink their

Milk

Acting like

It isnt sick.

Pluck the birds

And grind

Live chicklets

That’s what we refuse

to witness.

Skin 

The beasts

While they’re 

Alive

Ending Lives

That want to Thrive.

Spear the whales

Wound their young

Then just use

A bigger gun.

Eat their corpse-flesh

Because we’re 

“Viscious”

Look at all those 

Stupid fishes!

Suffocating

On our boats,

As we open up

Their throats.

At our leisure

We are winning

Even as They’re

Silent-SCREAMING.

We dissect rodents

Our sweetest kin

Harboring no slight

nor sin.

Saying their

“gross”

even as They

Feel Most.

We call them all

“Disgusting”

even as We

Kill the Trusting.

Loving dogs

And Clever cats

We call them

Pets

And “euthanize” them

Like they’re gnats.

Hunt 

The harmless deer

And brag

About how 

You shot

A “stag.”

Slay the wolf

And then her pups

And cutting out

All of their guts.

You’re the master

“Owner”

Fiend

Slaughtering

A living Being.

Incessant 

Passionless

And Dumb

We know all 

Have become

Numb.

Greatest gifts

Are freely given

Greatest crimes

Most hideously riven. 

As a Species

We are blind

Even as We

Suicide.

To take 

Paradise

And make

Shopping malls

Is a mistake.

To trade wonders

Of the Wild

For conveniences

So mild.

Cheapest profit

Briefest spoil  

We destroy it all

For oil. 

Our legacy

Will be great

Fire.

Most of it

Caused by our

Sire. 

We are so

Proud! 

We say it 

Loud!

Insane depravity abound.

Spiteful 

And treacherous

Desire

Self-inflicted

Weeping wound

In murderous attire.

Us hairless apes

We think we’re

“Clever”

Mass producing

Violent weather.

It’s almost 

Too late

You fools!

Must we always 

Be just tools?

Extinction beckons

It’s a Fact

Stop your praying

We must Act!

There is

Another Way

That’s Better

I will write it 

In This Letter.

Heal their suffering

Our pain

So instead

We All can

Gain.

Stand Together

Sally forth;

What we Do

What We’re worth.

Build a place

Of safety too

Where Every Being

May accrue 

That lasting Joy

And dearest Love

Eternal harmony

Above.

Mankind’s pettiness

And theft.

New technologies

We’ll craft

No more scarcity,

At last.

We will face

Our final test.

If Abundance

We desire

We can then

Acheive

Great power

To bring peace

And justice to

Countless billions

In woe

End the famines

Tend the world

To this Truth

We can behold

In the skies

Above us Now

Endless energy

Shines down.

Harness power

Of the plants

Not the animals

Our friends.

They’re our cousins

They’re our kins

Ethics

Empathy

Must Win.

Rise above

The toxic creeds

Painting all of our

Great deeds.

Be the cure

Not the disease

Find solutions

To be free.

If in harmony

We stand

Then together

We can mend

Tyrannies of 

Ages-past

Building futures

That will last.

There’s my message

That’s my speech

Unto you 

I must beseech-

Save us all

Let’s tarry not

Let us give it 

All we’ve got!