Lest we forget

We forgot the death-white burden

that lay curled explodingly

on the flat line between here & there

& we forgot the gaping pit

of atmosphere that singed the soil

& us that burnt it there above

we forgot the airborne tumours

of ignorance & time that swells

beyond our grasping paws of greed

we forgot the twisting paths

of molecules denied of science

therefore from our perception

we forgot our mortality

in the feast of fire & flood

as we wash our hands with famine

swill it down with cups of blood

we forgot that which we taught

to all the objects of our need

that all that grows beyond its use

holds no measure we shall heed

from alpha to omega

we have joined our ends to end

we have bridged between the islands

drained all wells to poisoned sand

& we forgot our search for new air

is subconscious flight for fear that

courage is the vice of dumb pride

that shakes & billows rage

in every new-found virgin sphere

& we forgot what it was we once loved

& whose back-yard we played & when

the string in the labyrinth would snap

& disappear in burning cloud of dissolving day

& we forgot because we could not remember

because we could not forget.

Not sure who the artist is (not me unfortunately)