within your locality

fear
a presence in your area
soaking in death
within their own depth
tears form from our
planetary bodies

hunger
looking to feed
it's soil
breath is just
recast
words from Whitman
man who knows nature
is just a breeze
of autumn: a blemish
of orange, we found her vanquished
in her own superiority
death crushed by youth
who found her inferior
but herself; yet man does
have fear and hunger
one to pray upon himself
the other to feed the cycle
and humankind shall recycle
as the earth did the ice age
in this current age
rinse wash and repeat
fear, hunger; two things
that do feed themselves on
human defeat