The flowers died on Monday,
Have you heard?
Monday, 17 September 2125.
The downfall of the bees set us on this road,
The expert’s warnings ignored,
The aftermath,
the squeeze of humans on our environment,
The cries of Nature drowned out,
Muffled by the hand of politics.
Did you hear?
The flowers died on Monday.
Monday, 17 September 2125.
Headlines blare the news.
Back and forth, articles fire across screens,
Decrying us as alarmists, scaremongers, socialists.
Repeat signs, shot down, one after the other.
None stopped arguing long enough to listen.
Have you heard?
The flowers died on Monday.
Monday, 17 September 2125.
No one listened.
Puppets kept blind to the truth
By the wool of the culture war.
No one would listen.
No one wanted to listen.
Did you hear?
The flowers died on Monday.
Monday, 17 September 2125.
Who had time to listen?
We had a war to fight.
Right vs Left
Conservative vs Liberal
Capitalism vs Socialism
Humanity led to the poisoned well,
And made to drink deeply.
Have you heard?
The bees are sick.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
The outbreak was sluggish,
Warnings thoroughly ignored In favour of
bickering amongst ourselves.
What is the politically correct way to handle this?
What won’t make the right mad?
Why should the left care?
The experts can handle this.
Did you hear?
The bees are sick.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
The experts’ hands were tied
By the puppet strings of politics.
Lack of public interest.
Lack of funding.
Lack of care.
Lack of conscience.
Have you heard?
The bees are sick.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
Conscience was browbeaten
out of humanity a long time ago.
A necessary casualty of war.
Too caught up in petty squabbles,
Many didn’t even notice it’s death.
Those who did, barely cared.
Did you hear?
The bees are dying.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
It started with Andrenidae.
The progress so slow,
Humanity wrote it off as a fluke.
Yet it ravaged the Andrenidae family.
No members spared of the devastation.
Have you heard?
The bees are dying.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
Next Colletidae suffered the same fate,
Dying off while in the public eye,
With no one lifting a finger to investigate.
Two are a coincidence, after all,
nothing to worry about.
Did you hear?
The bees are dying.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
And so they fell, mighty titans of ecosystems
Halictidae, Megachilidae, Melittidae, Stenotritidae
And the final nail in humanity’s coffin,
Apidae, with but a whisper faded from this world.
And just like that, with not a care in the world,
Humanity moved on, not thinking on the worldwide ramifications.
Have you heard?
The bees are dead.
Tuesday, 28 July 2122.
Did you hear?
Our agriculture is failing.
Sunday, 11 April 2123.
Ecosystems crumble as time slips by,
Slow and syrupy like honey,
Ignorance tastes sweetest after-all.
Have you heard?
Our agriculture is failing.
Sunday, 11 April 2123.
The butchery of the bees burns like bleach,
Just as bleach blazes through the country.
Bleach our hands, bleach our homes,
Bleach our crops, bleach our soil,
Etiolate our Environment of the evidence.
Did you hear?
Our agriculture is failing.
Sunday, 11 April 2123.
What was there to prove, anyway?
Why should we listen, anyway?
Don’t the experts always have an agenda, anyway?
They mean to control the masses, don’t they?
But, isn’t it the liberals’ fault?
But, isn’t it the conservatives’ fault?
Have you heard?
Our agriculture is failing.
Sunday, 11 April 2123.
Wait! It can’t be my fault!
I prayed/donated/contributed/researched!
What else was I supposed to do?
I’m just one person…
Did you hear?
Our agriculture is failing.
Sunday, 11 April 2123.
AGRICULTURE IN CRITICAL STATE
This is the conservatives’ fault!
This is the liberals’ fault!
This is the work of the DEI!
This is the work of the TRANNIES!
This is the work of those freaks on the other side!
Have you heard?
Our agriculture has failed.
Sunday, 11 April 2123.
Did you hear?
The environment was rendered acarpous.
Thursday, 27 January 2124.
What are we supposed to do now?
Earth stripped and strained,
Bleached beyond belief.
Humanity cloistered and contained,
The war so ingrained, no other choice but to inflame.
Have you heard?
The environment was rendered acarpous.
Thursday, 27 January 2124.
With their attention held hostage by hostile media,
Humanity’s convoluted house of cards crumbled around them.
Society as we knew it fractured, splintered by fascism.
Factions crawled out from the crevices and cracks left by class,
Farmers divided humanity up like cattle.
Us vs Them, how cumulative.
Did you hear?
The environment was rendered acarpous.
Thursday, 27 January 2124.
We continue to rip and tear and maul and rend
On and on, over and over as the cycle repeats as designed
Us versus Them at the forefront of our minds
While the world we know withers from the neglect of our elites
Have you heard?
Humanity has been rendered acarpous.
Thursday, 27 January 2124.
The flowers died on Monday.
Did you hear?
Friday, 21 September 2125.
The beginning of the end set in motion,
The dawn of man’s curtain has been called.
No applause to be heard, instead a gaping silence yawned
So few left to hear,
The flowers died on Monday.
Friday, 21 September 2125.
As the last flower wilt,
so did humanity’s last hope wane.
Friday, 21 September 2125.
Humanity’s fight was ultimately in vain.
