This land we occupy isn’t ours
we strut, love, birth, steal, glean
even kill
here
not owning
but breathing borrowed air until
it’s payback, pay-up time
we pawn
water
trees
mountain tops

billion-year-old fossils
don’t stand a chance
with us!

children of galaxies
we drag our toys around this
stage like the sandbox of time            will not shift
isn’t all energy star born?
if this is Earth 1.0
what if there’s never a
2.0?

weightlessness watches our antics
creates chaos with cosmic
sighs
pokes us with tornadoes
scrubs with tsunamis
seaquakes
molten lava seeping
through tectonic veins
listen, listen