Persistent Protest

Neatly made walking trails
along the winding river are marked
by mutual protest, natures’s to human encroachment
and human doggedness to nature’s subversive-ness
reminding me of the bleeding of the eternal enemies
the coiling cobra and the menacing mongoose

At the end, who will triumph
in that inhuman battle against nature
to enhance egotistical human culture

Silently I stay and survey, singing simultaneously
songs of miserable melancholy
and ecstatic exultation

Henry Victor 18.06.2003