Poem A Day Challenge April 24, 2019

Last summer as our part of the planet was burning, I began to write a collection of poems connected to climate change. I have been working on them off and on. This is one of them. 

And The People

And the people, 

egged on by their 

corporate masters 

dug more deeply,

extracted more thoroughly, 

spread more freely

the black death,

And called it good

And they integrated

it into their lives,

drove their cars, 

heated their houses, 

flew their planes,

extended their dietary horizons,

And called it good

And they transformed

the black death,

furnished their houses,

adorned their bodies,

filled supermarket shelves,

saturated landfills,

And called it good

The corporate masters 

created a new creed 

of the economy,

a modern mathematics 

for keeping score.

Earth was raped,

profits soared,

And they called it good

As the shadow

of the black death 

began to descend,

the corporate masters

plotted and schemed,

confounded truth,

proliferated lies,

gutted democracy,

And called it good

And the people, 

in thrall to their 
corporate masters,

embraced 

the black death,

dug more deeply,

extracted more thoroughly, 

spread more freely

the black death,

And called it good

Here is a link to blogs of other participants in this challenge. 

Links to my previous poems can be found here.