Endeavors in the world expand
the struggle for continuance,
a crazed collector, amassing art
not quite oxygen enough to go around
and competitive respiration harms
man, beast, insect, plant,
all staggering separately,
under the most determined assault
that man the marauder has ever mounted
against mother nature.
And if ears grow dull from incessant throb
of machine, siren, explosion, shriek, sob;
the child laugh, bird trill, man music
will pierce the encrustation
of a thousand deafening screams
relieving the pillars of the skull,
however briefly, of their burden;
eyes, greatest gift after brain,
design attributed to unknown master
may let us see another moment
with our limited video vision,
of wondrous nature.