erode

erode, originally uploaded by on·tol·o·gy.

On reading a poem by Jeannette C. Armstrong, History Lesson, I found her ending to be a suitably honest and powerful expression of the destruction we have wrought on the earth.

I just wanted to share it with you. - Enjoy!

" ...
The colossi
in which they trust
while burying
breathing forests and fields
beneath concrete and steel
stand shaking fists
waiting to mutilate
whole civilizations
ten generations at a blow.

Somewhere among the remains
of skinless animals
is the termination
to a long journey
and unholy search
for the power
glimpsed in a garden
forever closed
forever lost."

Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born in 1948 and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.

Original (2450 x 1684)