In the distance, a mountain's fate remains in jeopardy while the mining company begins the process by logging before the blasting.
A PERSPECTIVE ON MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL
Today a blast shot out and saddened all who heard.
Nature screamed and vomited pain
While a blood-mist dirt sprayed skyward.
Like a violent rape, a wound exposed, ugliness for all to see
With life destroyed and beauty gone
A tortured death, a mountain’s long decay.
How sad, what a shame you say!
This shouldn’t have happened.
Why do “those people” do such horrible things?
On a happy note, I enjoyed the widened road today,
The new four-lane that sped me on my way
Through mountains beautiful beneath the sky.
To you, I reply that all participate in the orgy, all create the death.
Concrete and asphalt, granite counter tops,
A driveway for house with mountain view,
Elaborate stone work, a show of affluence,
Create the rape, continue the need
For flesh severed from mountain loins.
