The Thief at the Door

 The Thief at the Door

The thief at the door

Is knocking

But deaf ears respond

Excuses mount

Tethered to fatally flawed notions

Of the proper direction to take

The thief steals so much more than it

Is ever put on its ever-enlarging plate

Has never

Been jailed for its transgressions

Which have not been silent

But which have been silenced

By those who think they stand to gain

With the current system in place

But this train takes all as prisoners

heading for the cliff

Only a handful know is there

Snagging so many of the innocent along the way

As they disappear from the pages of existence

Decline is difficult to witness when it is chomped away slowly

By the thief’s deadly jaws

Consumption’s multiplier remains unnamed for we are

Wrapped up in the daily struggles of life

Anesthetized by

technology’s wizardry.

The blindness to the thief’s role in breaking nature’s rules

Throws a monkey wrench into all noble actions.

Many scream into the ether not to let in this thief at the door

Destroying our neighborhoods

Decimating our forests

Igniting our landscapes

Drinking our rivers to their last drop

Disrupting any hope of cohesion

As numbers overwhelm & overshoot limits

That were never ours to set

OVERPOPULATION.