Okay, here's my second full length poem. And by the way, the character isn't mentioned much, but all of this are his thoughts on the subject...anyways, begin.



HUMAN NATURE



I stand at the corner

Of Adams and Eighth,

And weep at the wreckage

Of this once beautiful place.



Oh, how humanity has destroyed.

How time has taken its toll.

Once a forest, a meadow…

Now with buildings it is full.



I'm surrounded by rundown houses

With mold clinging to the walls.

Why have we put these things here

When once great trees stood tall?



And ugly metal mountains,

Factories bulge from the ground.

They burn up their own landscape

As once, there, a forest could be found.



A black ghost of destruction

Smoke fills the sky.

And underneath the interstate bridge

A polluted river trickles by.



And as time still flies by,

It may be near its worst.

Nature is destroyed so we get what we want,

But then for more and more we thirst.



Without a second glance

It’s trampled underfoot.

We crush the homes of many creatures;

Trees are metal buildings next you look.



As we humans move along

Animals move onto the streets.

It seems that from our selfish acts

We are more the beasts.



Our lives get so much easier

But it makes the earth so much worse.

Living beings are secondhand

Convenience and technology come first.



And they call it human nature.