No Turning Back

The earth cracked in Nepal
  with fire and shame

And thousands lay dead
  on the mountains and plains

Its crust was ripped open
  its heart now exposed

And lives were then claimed
  from a heaven deposed  

The story for mystics
  a legend say some

The day nature demanded
   for things that we’d done

Her climate infected
  her sky ringed in black

Our future as payment
   —with no turning back

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)