edit'd format as of 120912.
'Notes' section is the original format.

the waters have smoothed,
          but only due to their ebbing, as per
      the water will swell
                  and become turbulent again,
                                                     in time.
                the foreshore will be
                          consumed by Man
                                                      or
                          consumed by that which
                              drives man(?).
utilization and degradation
                         drives man's
                                                               non-existent nature;
                         that which they claim to have
while
                         destroying concurrently.

          we are they who
             deny our progeny
                                 a future lush
                            as our present.