Genre: enviromental/free verse.
Tipping Point
by Ciaran Dermott
Ranks of shiny diggers lie
poised on a knife edge-
crooked grins
playing across metallic features
in rusty morning sun.
Their ears are not built to hear
the screams of the earth.
Their eyes cannot see it’s tears,
trickling down muddy cheeks into toxic pools.
Piles of waste
line sloppy gutters.
Busy tyres and heavy boots trample
crushed dreams underfoot in their haste
to fill holes.
Seagulls gorge themselves on piles of shit,
becoming as fat and toxic as the pigs who drive the trucks
filled with more rubbish.
Every time a beep signals another load,
the world holds its breath.
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