Zoonotically chaotic, a world filled with life
Yawning and yelling to tell their stories in this
Xenologic experience
Whaling at all hours of the day to attract a mate
Vibrating tails back and forth
Unlucky unicorns
Taken to an early end
Saved only in myth and legend
Relegated to extinction
Quetzalcoatl watches all as we
Pass through our days without care
Oscillating between grief and anger
Nothing sacred any more
Memories of murder and mayhem
Leading us to an early end
Killing all we have worked to build
Justifying it all with no thought of the future
Ignoring every call to be better
Holding fast to a dull gleaming past
Gone are thoughts of leaving a better world
For our children
Every creature now must pay for our inability to bury the ax
Decisions made by the few
Controlling all that we know and do
Beasts of labor is all they see us as
Avert your gaze if there’s any hope of better days
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Comments (9)
Interesting and excellent work Atomic. Did you enter this in both challenges?
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clever and powerful!
Truth spoken powerfully in such a fashion that we will know what must be done but the powers that be will continue to ignore, deny, & wring every last bit of profit they can without a care for who must die for them.
Oooo, I really love that you went from Z to A! Fantastic reverse Abecedarian!
Terrific!!! Love it!!!
Very Nice!
What I like about this is the sense that perhaps we can reverse more.
Interesting take on the challenge