Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Anti-Nature (a Poem for Day Twenty-Two of PAD)

The prompt for day twenty-two is nature. 


Photo by Mateusz Stachowski
You Look in Everything for Yourself


Anti-Nature

You are hand-
            crafted just like the world
                        you carry on
to dominate.

Guard your eyes, 
wear a mask, sit with your stand-
            offishness, weed
your garden. Fumigate the wild
inside. Make yourself the hero
of your artificial world,
            wonder
            what
            happened
to the way you used to be.


*****


2 comments:

  1. I really liked this, very revealing and not at the same time. Read this twice, that's how much I liked it.

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    1. Thank you. I always appreciate your thoughtful comments.

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