Catch Up

Yesterday's Poem
(edited 4/10/09, still needs work!)

How unnatural is seems
to be locked up
within the cold stone walls
with their steel and wire frames.
Unnatural that we go all day
without one single breathe
of fresh air or that we
rush from one cage
to the next without a single
discerning glimpse of
the natural world around.

It is almost gone,
the natural world, it seems to be
eaten up by sidewalks to protect
our nice shoes, that fit so nicely
inside the cages.

Demolished in part, by our greed.
Demolished in part, by our laziness.

We have come so far, or have
we simply lost our way
from the days when it was just as natural
to shove hands into the earth
to coax one's food to grow.

And sit outside, after a long days
toil; with the hum of nature
all around. Eating a meal
with dirty fingernails,
that was raised up with the same.

Dreaming of the day, where they might
sit inside and breathe cool air
even in the dead of summer heat.

But even now, when one world
has been destroyed for another,
buildings and families
and lives have crumbled.

Demolished, in part by our greed.
Demolished, in part by our hastiness.