by Scott T. Starbuck
It’s possible future generations will destroy
our art, literature, music, film,
and corporations, in bitterness
for allowing ecosystem collapse,
and mistrust for how many leaders
were distracted, apathetic, selfish
ignorant, or insane with money and power.
It’s possible future generations will redefine
family, community, work, value, happiness,
life, dirt, success.
It’s possible education will change
from locking children in boxes
to getting them outside in tide pools,
rivers, creeks, deserts, mountains
and their community of remaining
mammals, birds, fish, amphibians,
invertebrates, reptiles, plants, trees.
It’s also possible, based on our collective
behavior, there won’t be future generations.
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