Feel My Pain

Chop, hack,

fell, sever

Greedy, vicious

clawed endeavor

Rip, tear,

bite, shred

Snarling metal

teeth I dread

Mother Nature

my employer

Human nature

my destroyer

Synthesizing

life until

They bleed my veins

of chlorophyll

Grant me breath

with each exhale

Seal my fate

with coffin nail

Solar goddess

lifts me higher

Devils light

my funeral pyre

To closed minds

I have no voice

To closed hearts

I have no choice

But roots grow deep

into this earth

Hold firm my trunk's

enduring girth

For I have seen

all creatures rise

And fall

before my sleeping eyes

And I will grow

for eons more

Make green this rock

you can be sure

I am this world

this world is me

I am everything

that's free

So buy and sell

your plots of land

You'll never own

what I command

Ancient wisdom

long renewed

Silent sentry

solitude

A testament

to self's release

A symbol of

organic peace

I've tried to share

our home in vain

You showed me saw mills

of disdain

So let it fall

your acid rain

Watch me wither

in my shame

This cash and burn

you can't sustain

Your deathbed is

all you obtain

A smoggy blanket

of methane

Global warming

your domain

Pollute the skies

with coal mind stain

You'll suffocate

on toxic bane

And then you'll lose

this excess game

And on this day

you'll feel my pain