Sweet Poisons Poem by Peter Hans

Delicious are the choices we make
Savory nectar
Dripping from a silver spoon
Nectar we take from the Earth
And chemicalize before our eyes
We’ll just watch
Without remorse
Desensitized.
We’ve grown
Unworried
Ignoring the changes
Not seeing the space filling
Blind to a world shrinking
Resources depleting
Nature receding
Why sit idly?
In an expectation
Of nothing to fix
Did we suddenly all take
The Koolaid mix?
These sweet poisons we drink
To “prolong” our life.

Is there a cure?
To the condition we’ve mastered
Of living in silence
With our mouths open wide
How do we change
What we have forced to remain?
What have we let die?
But conditioned we are
To just sit idly by.
Why not drink then
To the faith we have forgotten
The faith that man can overcome all
Even themselves.
So swallow the sweet nectar
It’s the simplest choice
Gods honeyed brew
And maybe after it’s down
We’ll be immortal too.