Ask the Butterflies

ASK THE BUTTERFLIES

All children hear about
how caterpillars spin
inside cocoons, come out
as butterflies.

And children learn of Jesus
who died, was put inside
a tomb that opened for us,
his life revived.

The Monarch butterflies
now face extinction’s fate
because the corporate lies
make greed inflate.

Profits mean more than lives
of people, plants,; those words
and deeds doom fish, beehives.
flowers, birds.

They make poisons to sell
to kill unwanted weeds
and insects but don’t tell
all those it feeds.

They poison water, earth,
destroy, drill and spill
oil, plastic, waste for wealth,
take health and kill.

All like Monsanto liars
in power who truth resist,
all climate change deniers,
hear scientists.

Ask the butterflies
as now they fly away
before the last one dies
and hear them say:

“We are passing away,
you are passing away,
all are passing away,
to Judgment Day.”