Succession

  • Climate change
    The price of progress, an excuse
    Mining for gold, to fund a capitalist dream
    Of material we choose to produce

    Cutting down trees
    Rooted for thousands of years
    Biodiversity destroyed
    To make way for industrial gears

    Killing habitats
    A method of manufacturing
    Breaking the chains of food
    To profit from hydraulic fracturing

    Burning fossil fuels
    To generate chemical ammunition
    Clouds retaliate and administer acid
    To restore balance by deposition

    Radiation, a slow poison
    Scarring the surface and dictating drought
    Fertile ground becomes hostile
    As water is seldom throughout

    A pioneer of succession
    In regions where life cannot be sustained
    The aftermath of mass extinction
    A path which can be restrained


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