Post-Modern Culture-Nile Trial in Denial
Post-modern culture lessons few has learned
Years stretched to centuries times forty-eight
Raising structures daring Time's 'dew' date.
Alas tide heralds dust to dust returned,
Mocks mankind's self-pollution coda earned.
Ice cap melt-down Giza, called the Great,
Dares threaten now, its powers bow to Fate,
As boom to bust bricks blow away, wind churned,
Leaves man at sea, too many bridges burned.
Polar pressures crack tectonic plate.
Open options exercised too late
Will mourn lost time when one dawn meets flood stern
Extending over reads, reeds, fern stems drowned,
Returning fallen pride to sea-slush mound. Post-modern culture thinks itself ahead,
Yet drawn by paradigmns out-dated, vain,
Reminding one of ostrich grounded bane
Administrators innovations dread.
Musings paradoxical are fed
In bursts haphazard cursed by growing pain,
Disturbing eco-systems, sorely strain
Climatic context, for, consumer wed,
Our needs today - tomorrow’s fountainhead -
Leave land exhausted, growth against the grain,
Lead to fields exploited, yields which wane
As nutrients - monopolistic bre[a]d -
Prevent diversity to sound ground’s knell,
SEcond best accept, [l]and poison well.