They Won't Miss You When You Die (A Eulogy For Mother Earth)
Brayden Kimbrough
I do hate to say to that more beautiful than I
That they won’t miss you when you die
But they won’t miss you when you die
Victim of the fast consumer,
Parasite,
And tried abuser
Searching for an answer
Without any reason why
Noble in your green intention
Overrun by intervention
Needle in the arm
Or a dagger through the eye
Quicker than they could deface you
Now they’re racing to replace you
Muck into the atmosphere
And smog into the sky
I do hate to say to that more beautiful than I
That they won’t miss you when you die
But they won’t miss you when you die
Letters of apologies from billionaire bureaucracies
The irony of signing off
And letting the sparks fly
Contaminating what lays sacred
The ninety-nine cannot erase it
All our fates decided by the few who roll the die
Puppeteering mutilations
And artificial information
All subduing
Our undoing
Truth to every lie
All the while the grass lay greener
In a land of manmade features
Only until you come to find
It’s blackened on both sides.