It is time for us
To retreat
From a life that greets
Death in the face
A menace
To nature
That gives
And leaves
Us
Alone
But we condone
The downsides of modernity
The relentless pollution of the sea
The demolition of our bounty
All for the cause of civilization
Disguising destruction
And collusion
Between man and man’s hunger for more
We need a blockade
For our useless needs
To surrender
To our beginnings
An island retreat would be nice
If the skies
The water and the trees
Still exist.
