Post by dazbt on Nov 22, 2011 10:06:09 GMT -5
HOW GREEN IS MY MOUNTAIN NOW
As a child I watched it grow
A smoking murky mountain
Pointed pyramid with insentient grace
Virtual volcano in potential threat
Yet restrained in its fuming menace.
A slate grey and wasted heap.
A monument to work and wealth
The symbol of a revolution
Industrial over burdening of nature.
Racing to defeat millenniums culture
In a declaration of uncaring arrogance
With its venomous smothering.
With no twinge of conscience I played a part
In the building of this towering threat
Stone by slurried stone
Blood and broken bone the mountain rose
In classic Phoenix style, birthed in fire
A living threat, yet a symbol of ongoing life.
And yet now your growth is stopped
No filth in industry to succour you
Your commercial life support switched off
You have been surrendered back to nature
The same nature that you sought to destroy
Now nurtures you in a gentler green.
As a child I watched it grow
A smoking murky mountain
Pointed pyramid with insentient grace
Virtual volcano in potential threat
Yet restrained in its fuming menace.
A slate grey and wasted heap.
A monument to work and wealth
The symbol of a revolution
Industrial over burdening of nature.
Racing to defeat millenniums culture
In a declaration of uncaring arrogance
With its venomous smothering.
With no twinge of conscience I played a part
In the building of this towering threat
Stone by slurried stone
Blood and broken bone the mountain rose
In classic Phoenix style, birthed in fire
A living threat, yet a symbol of ongoing life.
And yet now your growth is stopped
No filth in industry to succour you
Your commercial life support switched off
You have been surrendered back to nature
The same nature that you sought to destroy
Now nurtures you in a gentler green.