Destruction of Growth

A problem that stems from brutal disregard,

turned out of control by our inherent thirst for wealth,

and kept alive by the greediness of humans.

They are gone.

Vanished, cut down, continually depleting

We are cutting down our lifeline: the forests.

The once green beauty of the spanning forests

Is turning black from the smoke of the lifeless machines that cut down the trees with disregard

These thousand year old symbols of life are depleting

As we turn nature into wealth

The vast green expanses filled with life will soon be gone

with only one place to put the blame: humans.

The source of all this destruction can only be humans

For no one else would commit this monstrosity on our forests

Before we know it, they will all be gone

All because we showed them nothing but disregard

We thought about them only as a source of wealth.

Why? Why is it that no one cares the forests are depleting?

Is it too much to ask when our trees are depleting

that we might, as humans,

put aside our natural greed for wealth

and pay attention to the state of our forests?

Might we care to show them something other than disregard?

We will have to, or before we know it they will be gone.

Would we notice if all the trees just suddenly vanished, and were gone?

We as a society have been excited at the thought of profit, and not cared they were depleting,

For why would we, lovers of profit, treat them any way other than with disregard?

So would we show compassion to something that isn’t directly hurting us as humans?

Our everlasting consumption has led to the decay of the forests

All in pursuit of the same thing: wealth

If we have done all this just for wealth,

then who is to say we will care when they are gone?

We will just find something to replace the forests,

Another source of money that will eventually start depleting

What is next in the destructive path of humans?

What else will we brutally disregard?

Stop this unjust sense of disregard.

Stop the destruction caused by humans.

Stop our forests from depleting.