It Was So Beautiful I Had To Kill It

eyedclaar

It Was So Beautiful I Had To Kill It

You have some audacity
To speak the word conservation
And preach a love of wilderness
When your relationship is obviously
That of an abusive spouse

You do not care
You do not commune
You do nothing
Unmotivated by self-serving greed

When screaming down
Dirt trails or snow packed roads
Straddling your mechanical monsters
What exactly are you trying to appreciate

Your eyes cannot stray from the path ahead
All you hear is the howl of engines
All you smell is black exhaust
You see nothing of the wildlife
Left terrorized in your wake
You care nothing for the foliage
Shredded by your tires
You think nothing of the solace
Sought by the endangered few
Who actually understand
Our place in the web

You are lazy and loud
Brutish and ignorant
Filthy and predictably human

Do not lie to me about your love
Of mountains
Rivers and forests
We both know
You are only out here
Because your own backyard
Isn’t big enough and
Because your neighbors won’t tolerate
Such destruction and noise
In the one place
Where I would be hard-pressed
To even notice