General Poetry posted August 2, 2023


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The Fear of Humans

Anthropophobia

by CD Richards

Acrostic Poetry Contest Contest Winner 

A virus has inhabited this world;

No way's been found to counter its attack.

The horrors this invader has unfurled

Have turned our sunny skies from blue to black.

Relentlessly it moves across the Earth,

One act of carnage followed by yet more;

Pursuing global spread for all it's worth—

On borrowed time, the planet's scarred and sore.

Perhaps one day the virus will evolve;

Humanity outgrow our selfish ways.

Of this I'm sure—our problems we must solve,

Before we hasten in the end of days.

It's time to alter course or we may see

All life on Earth fade into history.

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"I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."

-Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
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