By: Arc
Level: 3
Puck civilization
Whatever happened to moonlight plays?
Man relied on cultivation
Daily bread was assured, we were content.
No schools
No struggle for dominance
It was an ecosystem
No chaos.
You are born
You play and help out on the farm
You of age, you pick a girl, clear a portion and start a life
Your destiny really lay in your palms.
They come with organization
They bully us into this life
This madness, where only thieves survive
They create money, the root of all evil, designer shoes and clothes, exotic cars all follow.
They make us throw away our gods
They give us their Christianity
And we become worse sinners
Our sacred virginity loses its dignity, porn is everywhere.
We respected elders
Now elders must bow to us
We feared the thunder and would not steal
Now if you don’t steal you’d be stolen.
We had oral tradition
Parents thought children how to act
Controlled their company, led them to kingship
Now the internet trains the child.
They’ve polluted our world
They’ve killed most of our friends, our animals in danger of extinction
Sapped everything they can find in our grounds
They’ve created viruses, caused mutations with nuclear power.
Abnormal beings rise up
Homosexuals are encouraged
Men now ‘know’ animals in the biblical way
And I don’t think they are done yet.
Our ozone layer is finished
The sun would burn us all
They have destroyed our land
Our home has become a prison.
First Published—-The Kalahari Review