On this road, does the black tarnish smell of death Clasped in tree hands, the clothes of those once organic In the high tops of the willows, hangs a lonely suicide The air desolate of any breath, only carbon monoxide clarity
A world that has hung its head, and has eaten all that did not see Now do beasts roam, filled with acidic humanity Gnashing teeth at all moving, setting fire to any green This march of sorrow, has crossed the plains and mountains
From the wes the California skyline, ablaze like a victorian candle; a majestic sight cut with screams In the northwest, the great trees fallen in Washington, titans of once something pure
In the the Great Lakes, a pestilence carved out with rib bones In the south, peanut fields and farmland mere toys to a malicious force in the Delta, the swamps all gasping for air, choking in silence In New England, the cities and metropolitan philosophy
A match burnt away in a gale of hatred On this road, does the ash begin to pile The cries of help, become ambient noise And the trembling hands, soon become frozen
This poem was a result of just reading a novel by Iain Banks, then hashing out some sorrow