ramblings and things
The trees scream in pain as they
are hacked and chopped and burned
in a frenzy of controlled destruction
more efficiently as lessons are learned.
And they plough the bare earth to
plant crops of soya for cattle feed,
to provide excess food
that the rich west doesn't even need,
which they house and store until
prices are again forced high
while in the poorer parts
people wither and starve and die:
but it's all done for profit to
keep a smile held in place,
as the gain are hoarded,
on the world's corporate face.
The bean counters are happy
as year after year they complete
those columns marked in black
on their annual balance sheet.
They are wreaking havoc
on the planet of blue and green
razing the lungs of the world to be
replaced with acres of soya bean.
Global warming advances
as climate steadily changes;
man takes this ancient Eco system which
he carelessly rearranges,
and the trees scream with pain as they
are hacked and chopped and burned
all in the cause of short term profit
with no lessons being learned.
There is a new type of desert
where you can travel all day long
and never see a tree or hear
any note of birdsong.
Will there ever come a time
When common sense calls a stop
to that senseless policy
of hack and burn and chop.
Planting Soya Bean