THE SHIFTING
ALLEGIANCE OF TREES
Gripping the insecure Earth they hold onto, as if
that in itself was worthy of praise, these false fronts
presage only their own destruction. Voracious land-men,
creatures of axe and saw, will get them in the end.
There is nothing to be done - every wastrel and rogue
already has cleared and scoured the land, seeking a gain
to be made, and a lucre from what they extend. Man takes
precedence over Nature. No matter the mind or the mend.
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It's always been like this since Cain slew Abel - the farm
versus the city, the land versus the flame. Then Civilization
grew, in Mankind's foul name. I have no mannered discretion
to stop what I say. Hell is already present, we make it every day.
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