I watched you afloat on autumnal skies,
Welcome spectacle, epic and bitter sweet.
Your plangent notes,
an ancient promise keep.
In Spring the homebound birds all doubts belie.
As time's passage, with ersatz progress flies,
Your homes, your food, your very breath compete
With techno marvels sterile, venal, bleak.
As ever more encroach, doubts and fears arise.
I mourn untold futures lost and betrayed.
Silent dawns, fishless waters pervade.
I mourn diminished hope and wonder's loss.
Deranged nature speaks in many voices.
Eccentric rains, demonic winds rage across
A wounded earth, the victim of our choices.
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