Victory

The sky itself is broken

The earth suffocates beneath waste

The seas hide garbage and chaos

We fight each other and ourselves

Any hope seems a childish dream

And yet

Love still flourishes

Families still grow

People still laugh

Life finds a way to reach for the sun

Smiles emerge from the darkest of moods

Sprouts push out from beneath the trash

Our fight is not over until the last breath is gone

Until nothing dances beneath the sun and stars

And the last living thing grins defiantly into the void

All it takes is one spark

To turn a mountain of debris

Into a glorious bonfire

As long as we nourish an iota of courage

And face each new day with the possibility of redemption

We win

-D.M.D.M 8-30-2012

7 Billion Saints and Sinners

We are seven billion saints and sinners crowded into the valleys and plains

Of a tiny azure sphere specked with dirt and rocks

Filled with fire and metal, embraced by clouds and ether

Covering its surface with vast swathes with our activity

Where the rivers meet the seas or the land is rich

Intent on taking all we can from our Mother

And determined to outshine our Father

Literally living on top of one another

Competing viciously for Power, Freedom, Profit, Honor

Behind the thin veneer of Civilized Behavior

Controlled by old liars and crooks

And fueled by a few thousand years of confusion

Ever since we became masters of enslaved Elements

Our minds too swelled with trivia and politics

To remember clearly how we got here from the Garden

Our eyes too blind from staring down microscopes or gazing up telescopes

To see how our machines are eating through the floor

Our hearts too chilled by broken fantasies and elegant lies

To feel anything for the space beyond our own nose

But the Storm is coming, the Inferno has been kindled

The Flood will smother and smooth, the earth will Quake

And all will be swept clean as it has done so before 

-D.M.D.M. -1/22/12