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--Sheila Dunlop and Reginald Unterseher

 

Merciless, relentless

digging drilling drilling digging

Ravenous, insatiable,

digging drilling drilling digging

We worship these gods we created

to bend all the world to our will

We sacrifice

  the ancient bodies, the ancient blood

We sacrifice

  the hands that dig, that drive the drill

We sacrifice

  the future world, what might have been

We give them all to the flame

Birds drown, fish gasp on the shore,

ice melting, the sea takes the land

sky dark, air suffocates

The people multiply

The people divided

Greed without end.

We level the mountains,

burn the sea,

behead the hills,

choke the valleys

  to draw earth’s dark blood

  to worship these gods

  we created

  to bend all the world to our will

We pour out our sacrifice on the blazing pyre.

  the bodies and the blood

  the blood and the bodies