Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week were: gifted, intense and rot.
Post-Mortem
When, at last, the veil is lifted
On the stewardship we’ve shown,
When the rot is all dissected,
When the true neglect is known,
The inquest
Will attest:
“Connected but intensely unaware.
To them, a paradise was gifted,
But they didn’t seem to care."
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014
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intriguing so more interesting...!
ReplyDeleteOuch. Painfully accurate.
ReplyDeleteThe veil is lifted or the curtain has fall?
ReplyDeleteI love the last part! Well done (again) Cosmo.
Some of us care deeply; sadly there are too few
ReplyDeletetrue & sad...
ReplyDeleteWhy humanity is intent to destroy ourselves is beyond my comprehension.. Paradise was that moment when we wanted something else.
ReplyDeleteyes indeed, very much so sadly.
ReplyDeleteHumanity has such a momentous past it is sad that the consequences of our actions are so difficult to envisage except by those that have such a small voice.
ReplyDeletewe should always cherish the gift of life
ReplyDeleteYes, for many that will be so.
ReplyDeleteSo very true!
ReplyDeleteSo many centuries of errors and attempts at loving restitution can be reduced to such a short post-mortum. I see it. I enjoy your means of delivering this nutshell/bombshell. May your poem travel far.
ReplyDeleteThe perfect epitaph. Sigh. Well said, Cosmo.
ReplyDeletelife should be cherished as should nature,
ReplyDeleteGreat environmental poem and so true of so many.
ReplyDeleteToo true!
ReplyDeleteSigh! ...Such is life !! Sad...but, true!
ReplyDeleteBravo! This is so well spoken, a timely message which so many ignore.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Excellent.
ReplyDeleteZQ
In your face, powerful and true...excellent!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad indictment this would be....
ReplyDeleteTrue, sad, and eye-opening all at once. How terrible for us to not be thankful for what we have and to mishandle it.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note: I really like how you have numbered all of your poems. I wish I would have done something similar.
Sadly... Someday may be!
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