when the rivers flowed wild

 
there was a time
when the two beautiful
rivers flowed wild
untamed
as they should be

confluence
of their tributaries
the creeks that were
the veins
the arteries
of the landscape
carrying
the lifeblood
and the life
of life
nature
natural
till some wise idiot
saw their potential
to tap this life
and
make it a power source
to light up the night
of a few hundred homes
at the cost of what seemed
only two wild beasts
that ought to be tamed

nature
you idiot
has
had
and will
always have the last laugh

to light up one habitat
you wiped out
entire ecosystems
you fool
wait till your economy
and your systems
both fail
the stonefaces gazing the pacific
at easter islands
are actually looking
your way
just look behind them
there's history
you're now trying
to repeat