Plastic detritus wraps itself round

waving legs of jellyfish,

hidden in virulent breaths of 

the ocean,    floating through

patches of matted hair,

caught in metal teeth.

Innocent flowers

diminish and decay,

millions

melt into nothing,

too far away      to feel

lamenting cries     lost families,

howls and hounds

choke and die in the black air

of factory fog before

being heard.

 

You cause a flood with 

fleeting gratification, thinking

the world is just a place for 

you to put your needs in.

You even

speak of others to go to,

fill more with your garbage bags

brimming over with earth's failure,

before everything's full

falling to nothing,

left to conquer

and the waste rolls

over empty lands

logged with corpses.