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God's kingdom God's kingdom
this is God's kingdom
not the corporations' kingdom
not the 1%'s kingdom
not the oil companies' kingdom
this is God's earth, God's solar system, God's universe
this kingdom does not belong to humankind
it belongs to the birds of the air,
the fish of the seas,
the beasts of the fields
who knows how the treasures of Earth serve all life?
the petroleum and tar sands left by dinosaurs
by Paleozoic plants and seas
now long gone
the gases deep within hidden crevices
aquifers long unknown
left for millions of years
now tapped
dare we continue to take them
for a
couple
of
centuries
in
the
long
long
long march of history?
those before us lived
just fine
without pilfering the earth of its treasures
why not we?
this is God's kingdom
not the corporations' kingdom
not the 1%'s kingdom
not the oil companies' kingdom
not America's kingdom
this is God's kingdom
God's kingdom
God's kingdom
- Michele McFadden's Shared Poems
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