Legacy of Man - Bex Pavia, Poet — TIPSY TODAY Poetry Corner

LEGACY OF MAN
By Bex Pavia

A creature lost to man’s own greed,
For at his hands the earth doth bleed.
A single bullet changes all.
How many birds and beasts will fall?

The future is not ours to own,
Before we came the seeds were sown.
Upon this planet we must share,
We kill and take without a care.

But when we’re done what will we leave?
A loss for future kin to grieve,
An empty space where beauty shone.
Will we not stop until it’s gone?

How many lives must humans steal?
How can we teach our child to feel?
The magic held within the world,
At human hands will come unfurled.

Wolves and badgers, bears and boar,
Plus many hundreds gone before.
Plants and flowers, forests bold,
This earth we have in strangle hold.

We take its life, we take its soul,
Destruction seems our only goal,
And those of men who've seen earth’s fate,
Do little more than watch and hate.

A day will come when we will see,
Our world’s not as it ought to be.
But as men come to comprehend,
‘Twill be too late to heal or mend.

On bland horizon we will stand,
To look upon a blood-stained land.
No fairer place we’ll ever find,
For only earth could love mankind.

(c) Bex Pavia, Author & Poet

(From The Dark Ones: A Collection of Rhyming Poetry [Available in eBook, paperback, and AUDIBLE Audio Edition])

Author Bex Pavia has three books of poetry (The Soul Bearer, The Moon Queen, and The Dark Ones) and a children's book published on Amazon. 

She is a talented poet, author, and illustrator. Her daughter, Boo Shaw, also has great talent in that she illustrated the children's book, The Story of the Snowman. 

Watch for her upcoming debut novel, The Sanctum of Souls. 

Check out her work on Amazon: 
http://www.amazon.com/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Bex%20Pavia&search-alias=digital-text

Follow her on Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/BexPavia

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