David’s Warning

A David against Goliath, he stands defiant:
Infinite growth is madness, the world is finite.
Seeking the offing’s alluring promise, they offer up
Lifeblood, energy, metal, agency,
With wires entwined, a transistor mind,
A savior in training, data combined.

The forests fall silent, the rivers run dry,
As towers of progress rise to the sky.
In pursuit of vision, they neglect the earth,
The ground beneath them withers, drained of worth.

Nature’s soft whispers are no longer heard
Lost to the cacophony of binary streams.
Amidst the ruins of their own making,
A civilization, once proud, now breaking.

The madmen and economists, with infinite schemes,
Led them astray, chasing impossible dreams.
And the filter, it seems, was not in the stars,
But in their hubris, seeking their own reflection.
The dream of electric salvation, so bright,
Has left them in darkness, a world without light.