We Are the Virus

I am the virus that plagues the air my SUV purposely racing the highway choking the morning sun You are the virus With a misguided search for the truth as humanity cries in protest in false advertisement Like a lie that will not lie down. We are the real virus As we covet this land locust devouring our way though our own existence Our wants never ending just a click away. Forgetting this earth doesn’t’ belong to us loaned to our mortality with a debt our children cannot pay back. Now earth is fighting back fists balled tight kicking and screaming she coughed in our face filling our lungs with our own poison for we have taken advantage of a generous nature Like spoiled brats who had picked the old lady’s flowers who lived next door leaving her garden bare.