warnings

observations from a train

Here I am sat here on a train

Watching the world carelessly fly past

As people rush here and there

Businessmen in dark suits typing furiously on laptops

Shouting down phones

reassuring themselves of their importance

A girl sitting next to me, reading a book of “life tips”

Most probably a scam, its only power manifesting through the readers beleifs

A boy solidly blocking out the world outside with his earphones embedded in his ears

No one seems to notice the glorious world they speed through

No one sees the damage of their arrogance

No one sees the warnings

 

No one seems to notice the perfect balance of nature

Supposedly maintained by human ingenuity

The trees and bushes bending and adapting to human “progress”

Brushed aside by man’s impatience.

Houses stubbornly built in seemingly inaccessible places,

Just because we won’t to,

Just because we can

Like a spot on natures perfect plan

 

I see a small bunch of flowers.

Fighting threw the gravel and constant harassment of humane trains

Fighting to show some beauty in the long lines of barren wasteland created by the arrogance of mankind

Thinking we can control and master all we see

Without consequence

Without mature fighting back

 

An illusion of power

An illusion of power soon to be broken

Because nature fights back

It tries to show us that we are wrong

That we cannot continue this way

This small bunch of flowers standing proud

like a warning

Nature never gives up

Nature will always win

 

But we ignore these warning

Both ones as harmless as a flower

And those as terrible as a flood

Or the thousands of lives she claims threw disease and famine

No matter how severe the warning

human arrogance prevails

 

but its to late now

the warnings have been given and ignored

wen the end comes

we will realise

we created this

we brought  this on our arrogant selves

we destroyed this world

now its fighting back

 

and only then might we learn