It’s not the species dying,
lost
or extinction in itself,
but the locusts,
and the pestilence
that will follow in its wake
that might
change your mind
(when it’s way too late)
and maybe make you
second-think
the frivolous decisions
that you made today.
Plague Hospital by Francisco Goya
Today Linda when it’s time for UN to start the conference on climate change and promises without any value will be made. Let us all help in making the choices of the people we have elected.
This is a Quadrille for the word extinction for Linda at dVerse.
This is so perfect Bjorn. I love the hesitance in changing our mind, even when it is too late. This is so profound.
First, goodness that is some creative title, smiles.
Yes, I would like to think of the future consequences of our actions today. This will certainly affect my consumer behavior today.
I am vegetarian five days a week… and bicycle to work… and it actually makes me feel better.
I couldn’t help chuckling at the surreal title, Björn, and then quickly sobered up when I read the poem! Locusts and pestilence are Old Testament, and that is where we seem to be heading, our comeuppance for the way we’ve treated the planet.
There’s a real ferocity in this poem.
The locusts eating the liver made me shudder, but perhaps it is revelations after all, perhaps we are too late. In which case I shudder for our children.
might— maybe– possibly— but more likely, it is someone else’s fault
It would be nice to avoid that fate. The threat is real.
The illustration is quite dark and dire…..the title made me chuckle but then the specter in the poem itself…the plagues on the earth caused by humans themselves.
Each thread removed in the web of life brings us that much closer. A shocking image is a good rap to the side of the head to wake the reader up.
Great write, Björn
a forceful scare to shock us into action!
“Doom and gloom and dark despair. People dying everywhere” … the lyric of the dark birthday parody come to mind. You certainly got our attention!
Oh yeah, it’s not going to be pretty!
Those damned locusts eat everything. With fava beans and a nice Chianti no doubt Björn.
I imagine by that time it will be too late.
Seems we humans tend to live for today and hope we will survive in the future!
Sobering truth, a wake up call.
Yes locusts eating my liver MIGHT affect my opinion. Maybe.
As Joni said “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”–that seems to be the vision of humanity. (K)
Oh, amen to that. Hoping we wake up, and soon.
A great admonition of a karma long in coming!
That’s a catchy title, all right. Almost biblical.
And now that Dylan song is in my head, and the locusts sang…
That title really got my attention. True and sad.