I look back at the past
and laugh at those responsible for this
havoc in the making: stars brought to Earth
in one, ITER human-cemented boom
prepared to arrive in 2010, 2012, 2015…
Who gazed up at the sky– after twenty years
their time– and dared ask, “Why not more?”
Until our stomachs grumbled for but the smallest
loaf of bread, to remind us of our humility
for a change. And yet we always return
to open pockets, bills running ramped
to cash registers, to political houses, to an infant’s
untainted lips, to a mother’s breast weeping–
when will someone, in twenty years time,
wonder “Why us? Why not change, now?”
February 24, 2014