"Earthlife" © 2023 Neil E. Clement, All Rights Reserved
if i could only have my way
no bombs would fall in any fray
no bodies would burn alive today
innocents would not be made to pay
for the crimes of warmongers at play
burning hellfire flowing thru our veins
should be tempered by enormous brains
but emotions play a different game
tuning themselves to greed and fame
turning most people functionally insane
nature’s slaughterhouse our eternal shame
if only i could make the rules
i would put in charge folks who are no fools
ensuring the people have all the right tools
making it easy to use all the right fuels
keeping it possible to share nature’s jewels
humanity’s war against life
should be a war against death
the profitable war on peace
must become a war on war
else stillness will inherit a lifeless globe
as earthlife sinks into a lonely twilight
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