I was inspired to write this poem after reading a book that changed my whole perspective on how I view the world we live in. In fact, I read all of his books. The book is called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
If we could see forever,
What would we observe?
The sunset alight with angled moon
onto the eclipsed night,
Standing high on the edge of
A collapsed ledge, yearning,
To be the gods, as we thought
we once were.
If we could see forever,
What would we witness?
Awakened by the first bite,
The fruit of the gods,
Became the tree of human learning,
Coexisting with species
Of this world and beyond.
If we could see forever,
What would we understand?
As civilization’s royalty, we became,
The gatekeepers of our own destruction.
Forbidding our land to adapt,
Forbidding jungle’s species to live free,
Inside their own space.
Foreshadowing the ocean’s garden,
Farmed to extinction.
Humanity unto man has finally won.
Populations bursting,
As towers of heat lace our icebergs,
Melting by second, in metric tons.
If we could see forever,
What would we foresee?
Oh, what have we become?
How, could we have dug so deeply
Into our own hallowed ground.
We are not gods, but specks of dust.
Resting in a shadowed microscopic space,
Riding upon evolution’s tides.
As we rise, we fall into the footprint,
We will leave behind.
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