Challenge
Calling the Earthlings
This is really important to me. This time last year I had the worst panic attack of my life. I'd sat on the edge of the sea and thought, "I failed you. You gave me everything and I did nothing to protect you." It devolved quickly into nearly six hours of sobbing, hyperventilating, and pure panic. After that, I started picking up trash, for hours on end. I didn't eat meat, I didn't buy clothes, I didn't drive cars.... A lot of the anxiety died down and while I still occasionally pick up trash, I now eat meat and I'll get in a car if need be. But the feeling that I could do more, and the feeling of fear is still wrought in every thought. So this challenge is part of an art project I'm doing to sort of communicate these thoughts- thoughts I know are shared by so many people. Show me how you feel about the environment in any format, and then comment at the bottom whether or not you'd be okay with me using your words, and if I could credit you in any way. Thank you so much!
Equilibration With or Without Us
No matter,--volcanos, ice, tectonic shifts
Earth equilibrates
Tornados, vise, continental drifts
Birth dominates--
No matter whose
The systems are doomed, come what may
Dearth motivates
Eco-, solar-, Copernican-soufflé
Mirth masturbates
Backscatters diffuse
Blips on steep, maudlin timelines
Wide berth germinates
Flora, fauna, sleepwalking fine lines
Rebirth alternates
Packswaggers recuse
Observer du jour solipsizes
Net worth terminates
Each short run capsizes
Self-decapitates
Accommodates next refuse
Imagining life forever
Earth equilibrates
With or without the deluded or the clever
Nothing can ingratiate
To outlast Earth's next muse
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