<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340610" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Extinction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Past</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pristine blue sky<br>Mirrored agrarian lives <br>Living with nature.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their work was always difficult<br>But that never seemed to matter.<br>Their crops were all that counted most: <br>Enough to feed the family<br>In good times as well as the bad <br>Everyone loved their plot of land.<br>They knew it meant their survival<br>So the hard work was the tradeoff. <br>What developed was mutual<br>Respect: an interconnection<br>Whereby one affects the other; <br>But then one day a cloud appeared: <br>A black, menacing, looming cloud <br>Foretelling future misfortune.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Present</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The industrial<br>Revolution dawned under<br>This foreboding cloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Machines began to do the work <br>That man and beasts for eons had<br>Performed with blood, sweat and tears.<br>His work was easier to do<br>But soon discovered that he had <br>Become an industrial slave.<br>A mere symbiotic creature: <br>His nature was parasitic.<br>He no longer had in himself<br>The oneness and independence<br>That he had always called his own. <br>He’d become fat and ignorant <br>Living by his own destructive<br>Philosophy: hedonism.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The future</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky is poisoned<br>As well as the land and the seas.<br>The earth was dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through Mans continuous neglect<br>The earth became terminally<br>Ill. It was no longer able <br>To sustain the needs of Mankind.<br>War broke out all over the globe<br>Millions killed, many more had starved<br>To death; billions soon will follow<br>Billions more after that. The stench<br>Of rotting flesh has overwhelmed<br>Those able to live another<br>Hopeless day, gasped the putrid air<br>Futile murmurings continued <br>Until silenced by the guns<br>The ultimate judicature. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An eerie silence<br>Prevailed and all that was heard<br>Was screeching vultures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Ahearn">Albert Ahearn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340610" data-title="Extinction de Albert Ahearn" data-description="The Past A pristine blue sky Mirrored agrarian lives Living with nature. Their work was always difficult But that never seemed to matter. Their crops were all that counted most: Enough to feed the family In good times as well as the bad Every..."></div> </div> </div>

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