May 2, 2010

 

The End

 

            The name of the crime is omnicide,

            The level of civilization which generates it, is barbarism.

            The level of consciousness which spawns it, is egocentrism.

            The deed mirrors the state of the perpetrators’ souls.

 

            In worship of mammon, humans are destroying

            The ability of the sole planet in the universe which

            Supports life, to continue providing life a home.

            The miracle is being undone, torn apart.

 

            We are the moths shredding Indra’s net,1

            The monsters who kill our own children.

            Lower than worms in sensitivity,

            Dante’s Hell is our legacy.2

 

            We killed God and now we kill life.3

            No species has ever so betrayed its mates.

            We are a swarm of locust ravaging the Earth.

            With us, evolution sprouted a dead end.

 

 

 

 

 

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1           In Hindu mythology, Indra is King of the Gods, and also God of War, Storms and Rainfall.  The metaphor of Indra’s cosmic net was developed, during the 3rd century, by the Mahayana School of Buddhism.  The net is laced with jewels at every intersection, each jewel reflecting not only all the others, but also all the reflections which are in the others.

 

2              Refers to the classic poem, the Divine Comedy, by Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). 

 

3              Killing God refers to the dictum of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), “God is dead.”