Endangered species, act!
(For Peter, who cares.)Can you imagine, like salmon,
humanity agonizing to become
in front of an insurmountable confrontation
of genetic toxicity.can you imagine, like salmon,
rivers of flowing generations
on paths wrought in memory
from the mystery of creation
returned over and over
in birth death of rhythms
to only discover the ultimate demise.Can you imagine, like salmon,
obstacles, built to serve power
monuments and monoliths
altering cycles of existence
as a sacrifice to be offered
to the human potential
which will never return.Can you imagine, like salmon,
weakness dissipating will
while the scope of your vision
eternally fails.Or can you imagine, like salmon,
a human foetus
born in agelessness of life cycles
anguishing to become
an inheritance of existence
while the theater of potential
exchanged all that was fertile
for chemicals of destruction
and the discovery of waste
and all that was sacred
in an eyeball's sweet liquid
evaporated from a permanence
no life could afford.Can you imagine, like salmon,
the silence.Lloyd Marbet