There are no people
to help
On the windswept planet
of Mars
They just aren’t here yet
Neither has selfishness
arrived
here
to depose
the poor one,
Or that greedy wall-street
fuckery
to keep the little one, pinned down
with fear
None of it, has arrived
here
It’s only a disease – over there,
On that
little blue world
Over there, On that little castaway
planet
they call Earth
There – where the perfumed novice
dumps his plastic
into a sea of singing dolphins
Over there – where the sun shines first
and the humans
have no enemy, but themselves
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I love the science fictional
I love the science fictional tone of this poem, but that final stanza really packs the power!
J-Called
We often never fully
We often never fully appreciate the gift we’ve got, until it’s gone. And the gift we’ve got - is Now