Consumed

BOOMING metal settles

in echoed waves

of concrete

HITTING steel

and aluminum

A jungle jumbled

and yet carved

to precision by

busy little men

we RAZED

these places

that nature grew

and raised

our own

on the gentle back

of the quiet earth

And yet

the asphalt CRACKS...

The concrete

wears down

The metal shall rust

and submit

and what we build

decays

Hear the oceans BOOM

and swallow all we thought

would harm them

Lava HITS the ground

running down man's creation

beneath the mountains

Like a RAZOR nature shaves

all that tries to tame her

beneath her sky

Through one CRACK in man's plan

The earth grows back undaunted

just below our so-called progress

Storms and floods erase

Gardens grow instead

around the past

We may think we consume the earth

But the earth devours all

as the moon watches

Just ask the graveyards buried

in the belly beneath your feet

Did they ever think

the world would forget them?

and yet it has