The Only World I Know

This is the only world I know

and deep down it troubles me so.

The feeling isn’t right. I see the blight.

We’re no longer in tune with the light.

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Mother nature wasn’t always kind.

Tempests, storms, volcanoes erupting

made early life so disrupting.

Though our fight for survival made us strong

our coping mechanisms were slow

to pose a threat to the planet we know.

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With technology though,

Greedy Titans told

mother nature where to go.

Having conquered Earth

they also want Space,

forgetting the human race.

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All these dreams of escaping gravity

are signs of hubris far and near.

After poisoning our biosphere

the Titans live in fear

and set their sights on planet B.

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Technology was not the tool

for taming mother nature,

but for satiating the Titan’s greed.

Sadly, we followed their lead.

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Thanks to the industrial revolution,

in just a few centuries,

we’ve gone from millions to billions

of mouths to feed, destroying everything

like swarms of locusts in the spring.

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We’re kind creatures, I’d like to think,

but collectively, we destroy everything!

Individual greed is a human flaw;

collective greed is the last straw!

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If collective greed is destroying our only home

there’s still hope for saving humanity.

The name of that light flickering beyond the sea

is collective action and humility.