For We Shall Be Smitten

The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. – Isaiah 24:5

But, we are as nature’s largest filthy rats: swarming disgustingly & destructively all across this planet

Forever making heedless noise, rooting up the earth in a toxic corpro-pursuit of individual happiness

Producing huge clouds of evil smelling smoke burning our trash, right along with the lilies of the field

But, one way or another all this too shall violently pass without a trace in but a wink of geologic time

Our hatred of our brothers increases in direct proportion to our own insupportably-excessive numbers

We routinely loose deadly force upon each other at the international, national, local & family levels

Tellingly, our species has even been able to bring on the 6^th of earth’s great mass extinction events

Meanwhile, we welcome our next Dark Age, braying a loud, scornful rejection of education & reason

None of our 1 True Gods can protect His flock from the blind natural retribution we so richly deserve

Yea, the soils that our corporate overlords have poisoned shall in turn strike them down as well as us

When at last it becomes obvious to all, we will grow angry, asking why & then shout: It’s not fair!

But worry not, for we will go down fighting: Fighting each other over a few pitiful remaining scraps

The correction will not be vengeful, but rather a simple, blind and natural correction of our excesses

Yet, most shall tiredly insist that our misfortunes are the wrath of our many & petty, One True Gods

For as the wages of sin is death, so shall our reward for ecological devastation be societal extinction

We shall be smitten and, of course, we shall cry out in fear & anger, begging for mercy & forgiveness

Leaders note: All of us shall be smitten, not just the brainwashed moochers who keep supporting you

Though our population growth shows a steep increase, its decline shall be far faster & much steeper

And there will be no enemy bogeymen to vilify as the poisoned earth adjusts itself - At our expense

The blind hand of the marketplace shall be shackled by the handcuffs of resource over-exploitation

& all of their industry-backed, libertarian, fake-news campaigns won’t prevent our fall from grace

We shall at last realize that we have narrowed our precious children’s futures to a mere base survival

But through monstrous brutality and adapting to disease-ridden squalor they may carry on-for a while

Odd fellows, as monks once did, will again try to save bits of our wisdom from the returning Dark Age

Tragically, vast quantities of digital spam, tweets, selfies, updates & advertising will be lost…forever

Yet, fittingly, a geologic layer of legacy plastic litter shall mark our passing…for millions of years

But, not that long for the trillions of $ worth of weapons & ammunition we have so lovingly produced

Beacons of freedom shall continue to comically advocate for slashing taxes & regulations as solutions

But they shall not fail to cut infrastructure, education and basic research while increasing dEfense

Yet, all the expensive lobbyists put together won’t be able to protect their wealthy donor’s interests

So, naturally young men will be called on to bravely sacrifice in holy wars over vanishing resources

And still, none of our leaders will mention our own overpopulation as being the root of our vexations

Lo, that rabid anti-environmentalist shall be put down right next to this squishy green tree hugger

Media’s Traditional Family Values will not spare our exceptionist children being punished as well

The seemingly pointless suffering shall leave us with nothing to believe in…and little to hope for

So shall our most rich sense of entitlement be at last fulfilled: In hunger, filth, disease and ignorance