We are the ones

We are the ones
who crowd the roads,
speeding the highways from here to there
on endless and pointless errands
filling the hours of the day
between feeding times
driven by restless activity.
They are the ones who suffer.

We are the ones
who waste and spill,
who poison the seas
with our greed and our hunger
for more, and for speed;
for new and for different.
They are the ones who suffer.

We are the ones
who have broken the world.
Where are the ones
who will mend it?



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