Parasite
Mankind has been no bargain. They’ve scorched the living earth,
determined to exploit it to improve their worth.
Bargaining for diamonds, drilling for fossil fuels—
with each new excavation, proving they are fools.
They release noxious gases into the atmosphere,
and with each new admonition, shift to a higher gear.
Who will console our children as they forge ahead
following our example after we are dead?
We leave them with a dying world, and who is to blame?
First, off, those politicians who see it as a game
to increase their power in spite of consequences,
building up their war toys, strengthening defenses.
Extending greedy fingers, needing ever more.
Selling off our future, profiting from war.
While the wise men warn us, who in power listens?
Too busy filling pockets with everything that glistens.
Prompt words today are: fossil, scorch, gas, console, example and bargain.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I feel like this piece could make a good rap
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So very well said, now I will go back to bed and cover my head, because I am sad, and will be until I am dead, because I too was bad, as I have said, but it is all those gas driven cars that to me led.
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I love my car as well. Mia culpa.
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Brutal truth.
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BLAMMO.
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Those prompt words certainly suggested a direction for this. Someday, there will be no politicians – or humans.
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Alas.
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Righteous rant, and very true.
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