The Perfumed Novice

 

There are no people

to help

On the windswept planet

of Mars

 

They just aren’t here yet

 

Neither has selfishness

arrived

here

to depose

the poor one,

 

Or that greedy wall-street

fuckery

to keep the little one, pinned down

with fear

 

None of it, has arrived

here

 

It’s only a disease – over there,

On that

little blue world

 

Over there, On that little castaway

planet

they call Earth

 

There – where the perfumed novice

dumps his plastic

into a sea of singing dolphins

 

Over there – where the sun shines first

and the humans

have no enemy, but themselves

 

 

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I love the science fictional

I love the science fictional tone of this poem, but that final stanza really packs the power!


Starward

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  We often never fully

 

We often never fully appreciate the gift we’ve got, until it’s gone. And the gift we’ve got - is Now