Only when the last tree had been felled
Only when the last river had been poisoned or run dry
Only when the last fish had been caught and devoured would we realize

We couldn’t eat money.

Only when every lungful of air we took for granted moment by fleeting moment
came to us through chocking, gasping, desperate fits of pain and regret
and all we were rewarded with for our effort was the simple realisation…

We couldn’t breath money.

It was all used up, gone…
Forever.

Only in the end did we finally understand the simple undeniable truth
Nothing we have ever achieved mattered or changed anything.

Our science, our technology,
Our good deeds and charitable donations or good intentions,
Our poetry, our music, beliefs or morals

Just didn’t make a difference.

The combined lives and achievements
hopes and dreams of all generations past or that could have been
lay wasted and are now just a wishful taught in the tear stained eyes of the countless dead.

And only when there were no more bullets to kill or people to terrorize
Only when there were no more minorities to discriminate against or politicians to blame
would we realize…

We messed up
We messed up bad and there was no going back

There was no hope, no light at the end of the tunnel

No hero to save the day

The future was in our hands – not that of our neighbor
our politician or business elites.
Every day we handed our future, willingly
to those that did not care, who could not possibly care.

Blinded by shiny trinkets, set-top boxes and tidbits of misinformation We doomed ourselves.

Because WE did not care