The Terra Pecking Order

Romans, Mayans, Easter Island, and now is time for sapiens

Photo by Mohammad Ali Huzam on Flickr Creative Commons License.

The soil watches all civilizations
rise and fall.
Despite the founding fathers chanting the
rule of law.

Coercion
Corruption
Dynastic succession
Pushing innocent lives into
the jaws and…prisons.

Constant falsity
Mass brutality
Man-made calamity
The victors always try to
burn’em all into lost history!

Unfortunately,
soil has a good memory.
It takes not cheesy nor trickery
Romans, Mayans, Easter Island,
the soil eat’em raw and yummy!

Now sapiens,
from inequality
to consumerism,
the solution to every problem is
to build a wall (war) and…worship Peterson?

Severing humans and Mother Nature
equates Netherworld’s call.
Is it blasphemous to say we are
mere dirt, after all?

© Marmotian 2022

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Check out a more scientific illustration of the “Terra Pecking Order” below:

Are We and Soil The Same? — A Modeling Perspective of Soil Carbon Accrual and Weight Gain