ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: And I Behold, by Clement Abayomi

. . . ice sheets,
dark, deep cracks
vomiting streaks of tears,
oceans swallowing
the shores of memory.
. . . behold footprints
of forgotten futures
weeping their waste.
hollow hopes,
looming loss palling
and palling the
air as fun-flying smokes
of industrial farts evangelise
suffocation on the
[sur]face of Earth.
a world. wordly. look.
a world colouring its
cutis like the decayed
dermis of dead leaves.
enough. enough of
toxic torture. we either
live here or leave here—
one should teach us how to
be environmentally born-again.

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