In The Name Of Progress Poem by Nancy Chambers

In The Name Of Progress



What a pleasant way to begin a day
Walking my dogs thru this patch of woods
The last remaining green oasis in the asphalt jungle.
Birds sing, chipmunks scurry
Groundhogs burrow and deer pass.

Then they arrived with a sound like thunder
Orange and yellow “monsters”
Leveling the trees and scraping the ground bare
Making way for another vacant office building in want of a tenant

In the name of progress

It only took minutes
The trees were gone
The ground lay barren

Distressed catbirds circled and cried
As the giant shredder devoured the fallen trees that housed their nest
Cry birds Cry
Your nest is destroyed, your babies are gone

In the name of progress

Run chipmunks Run
Your home is no more

In the name of progress

Bye deer and groundhogs Bye
There is no place for you

In the name of progress

In less than a day Paradise lost

In the name of progress

Oh! How our lives have been enriched!

In the name of progress

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Rani Turton 14 June 2008

The world has changed and not always for the better. one tends to forget the more brutal aspects of 'progress'. Thanks for bringing it up.

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