UNACCEPTED CONTINUUM

Red bird

Sitting all alone on the wire

Surveying the grassy knoll beneath

Wondering

Where his mate has flown

While each inch of nature around him

Becomes encroached

As we continue to build our homes

Pushing

Into territories so specialized

That species marked for extinction

End as the last one dies

Buildings continue rising out of the land

Replacing trees from where they now stand

Silently

Our rush to urbanize

To colonize each parcel of land

Bringing us all to the brink

Where no species may exist

All because we continually fail

To acknowledge our need to co-exist

Continually