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It was greed that fed

A fire rampant

Through the forest

Of our little town,

A desire to grow

With little desire for effort,

A missing element

In the human world

Where we destroyed

The growth of nature,

Rerouted the springs,

The tree line

To meet desires

Not on our own,

Instead of working with earth

To achieve common ground

An outcome for all

Not one solitary,

A solution written in the stars,

But alas,

The human mind finds comfort

In the fire-

In creating a lesson to learn from

Instead of learning from those before,

Rewriting nature’s plan

With little study,

Thought correct based upon

A lack of research

A lack of design-

The fire ran away from them

To spread across,

Jumping from house to house

Until our kingdom was left-

And we wondered

When it would be next.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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