Kinesthetic
September 1, 2009 by hames-1977
The walls are coarse to touch, hard and steely,
it was a challenge not to see but to feel with our fingers
sharp points that will prick a skin and bleed. By then
the grave of the earth has avenged its loss. The stair
is a winding wonder of wooden realm. Forest scent
permeates like sweat staining musk to the olfactory.
Curtains we plucked from the fibers of the grass
that exist in some temperate savannah, polished
and handwoven by the nomads of Siberia.
The glass came from the silicates we scoured
from the rivers of Babylon, coal-fired in a furnace
by a hundred men impoverished with ten cents an hour.
And the floor is a polished limestone quarried
from some majestic mountains of the Far East. White,
cold slab, for our feeble feet resting on a tombstone. The chairs
are fabricated in hides separated from the meat of animals
domesticated and cultured for a trade in an African jungle.
We commercialized the organic in the will of the greedy generation
crazy for the avant garde. We are fond of collecting. Prized.
Natural. Unique. All, for the sake of a want that cannot be satiated.
And at a cost, we hunger for more as we build our little kingdoms,
looking for some definition. Until we find that there is no more left
of the skin of the earth, we have stripped of its clothing
to cover our shelters. Unless we travel to the moon
digging kryptonites to embellish facades of our own vanities.
Ouch!
Reality bites.
This poem illustrates beauty in a very strong descriptive manner in one hand, and stings the conciousness bringing out guilt like some bitter after-taste from the sweet loots of human from nature, on the other.
The modern man is boastful of his sophisticated produce, and discoveries, and inventions and often forget the true resources that created his majestic urban living. We are depleting the resources, and the wanting never ends.
You made such a clever statement with some note of sarcasm in your conclusive line. Such a fabulous ending! LoL.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
jeques,
thanks for agreeing that we, humans have to reckon with the backlash, nature can be capable of doing in return. my commentary of man’s irreparable abuse to nature is a bold statement of my objection to the continuation of this practice. in the depletion of nature, we are also depleting the very lifeblood of our existence.
that is why, going green is a welcome solution of saving the environment from its imminent demise. if we will not do this in our lifetime by changing our way of life, we will have our days on earth numbered like a ticking bomb. and it fast running out.
best of times,
marvin