God Shook His Head Today
In the public eye you spew lies from the tablecloth, with fake humanitarianism.
A sort of façade one puts on at a Mardi gras parade, whimsical and alluring.
Yet, your goodwill proves shallow.
Another ego centric politician to add to the list.
While the oceans dry up, and the glaciers melt, our super typhoons are angrily bellowing out rubbage from the plastics filling the earth.
Nobody really cares, in a world in which life is taken for granted.
Some countries go without electricity, and Wi-Fi as we sit down with a big mac, and whoppers.
Digging around in a cereal box trying to locate the little plastic toy.
Oh boy what have we done, to our planet? I assure you it is time to panic.
God shook his head today, wondering how we allowed the wasting away.
God shook his head today, surveying the land.
Crying as the clouds formed a frown.
I’m ranting like a tsunami killing innocents upon the shore, engulfing the victims with the force of five hundred armies.
It is too late, what’s done is done, landslides, and hurricanes the size of multiple states taking the weak to grow stronger, while others are left in defeat.
God shook his head today, then placed his face in the palm of his hands as he looked downward at the plastic filled sands.
Copyright © Jayme Chapin | Year Posted 2021
About this poem
Written by the eyes of the beholder noticing decades, and decades of observational insight into the corruption of the world. I enjoy writing and wish to publish a poetry book or perhaps start out with a chapbook. This particular poem allows one to think about environmental hazards, and what we take for granted. Perhaps, every world citizen attributes to some sort of environmental hazard whether one means to or not.
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Submitted by jaymecaroline on May 25, 2023
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