Watching the planet thrash
in tortured pain
is akin to watching on helpless
as a friend loses weight,
their energy, their hair
while battling an aggressive cancer.
The cancer of this small blue world
is the most gluttonous enemy.
Blinded by its miserable conquest
to consume and exploit
everything in its path,
the cancer does not stop
until it murders its host
and destroys its only means
for survival.