Veritas Unspoken Larceny | TAK Erzinger

Veritas

The world gave off a wildness
its body abundant.
Blessed at the end of a long day
with the balance of necessity.

Complex in its simplicity
not taking more than needed.
Universal, a final destination,
death without fear
under the long round shadow
of the sun.

Today most don’t understand what nature says.
It knows how to speak.
So much to share. It calls out again and again.
Telling the truth, but now no one listens.

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Unspoken Pact

We were already here
one in our harmony.
When you arrived
it was early in the day,
you were as vulnerable as we were.

An era no one recalls
lost between sunrises and sunsets
you found your way
searching like us for a place to survive
in a maze of land and water.

Then you discovered
from your very first steps
the sound of your own voice
over flinted fire which burned
as brightly as you did.

Between continents
aglow in discovery,
reproduction seemed to stretch from here to eternity
ravenous for all we had readily shared
now, you consume all in your sight
and have become our adversary.

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Larceny

Of the waves on the sea
its tide dances,
late evening glows
below sunken mysteries.

Plankton on the surface,
moon rising high,
mammals float in a rhythm,
in this place that’s their home.

Plastic pieces
just lifeless souls
interfere with these moments.
invaders robbing what they know.

Quiet dying beasts
vanishing when no one’s looking,
washing upon shores
in this place that’s their home.

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