DEATH OF A BROKEN PLANET

DEATH OF A BROKEN PLANET

A Poem by ROBERT DAVIDSON

 

DEATH OF A BROKEN PLANET

 

By ROBERT DAVIDSON

 

 

Often  it  seems  like  I  have  betrayed  my  world

like  a  rough  lover,  mauling

bruising  his  woman  in  the  dark - 

leaving  marks  upon  her  skin

 

In  my  bomb  shelter - I  perch  on  the  very  edge

as  greenhouse  gases befoul  the  air

and  choke  me  like  traffic  fumes.

I  watch  my  planet  burn  out

like  the  woman  I  once  raped  and  left  to  rot

 

Along  my  streets  the  newsboys  cry

the  old  burnt-out  world  is  dead - a  stillborn  babe

as  sick  cities  fall  like  crumbling  Babylons

 

My  own  stumblings  are  on  stony  ground

as  my  planet  withers - becomes  a  barren  moonscape

with  detonations  inevitable  as  fallout.

Fear  crawls  like  a  lizard  on  my  skin

while  mushroom  clouds  maul  her  torn-apart  face

 

Oh  yes,  I  buried  the  waste,  that

one  day  will  poison  my  child.

 

The  broken  body  of  my  world

lies  prostrate  like  my  wife  when  beaten  by  her  husband -  

Such  was  the  surrender  I  wanted

 

But  she  will  not  be  mine  to  rob  and  rape  again

for  my  broken  planet  dies -  Guernica, Hiroshima,  Chernobyl

 

Her  womb  becomes  my  tomb.

 

Copyright 2008 robertdavidson

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2008 ROBERT DAVIDSON


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I think the parallel between a callous greedy man and mankind's use of this planet is very appropriate. The way you take personal responsibility for the groups actions is a moral lesson.

I think you should revisit this and hone it even more. It is a great poem and deserves to become even sharper. I think you could open it by adding some new elements aside from the rape theme. Other abusive images could be used.



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