I wonder if the trees knew you were coming for them
They have seen people like you before
They have outlived people like you before
Did you stand under their shade while you made your plans?
Did you dare to call it an execution?
You can only see as far as your greed
Your eyes hungry for more zeroes
You tell us it is development
But we know it is destruction
You tell yourselves you run the world
Drunk on the power to make decisions
A tree could fall on you tomorrow
and silence you
But we need them upright not falling
We need more of them than us
Don’t leave your children an inheritance of concrete
Don’t teach them that highways are better than forests
Don’t displace the birds and the animals and the fish
Don’t remove what you cannot replace
How can you do this to a sanctuary?
What will you do with their bodies?
- Rochelle Dsilva
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