Entrenched in an endless
cycle of external consumption,
the intractable habits of your
daily transgressions castigate
your presence; a scourge on
the environment you inhabit.
Eschewing independence,
your gluttonous palette
moistens as disposable feasts
line up before you; their
limitations beyond the focus
of your insatiable gaze.
The consequences of your
excess force the change.
Weaned from a diet of
carefree depletion, you slowly
break free from your cycle;
rewiring learnt processes
with every temperate step.
Learning to create, you
strive to be self-sufficient;
healing the damage that
once you wrought.
Low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria, magnified 10,000 times (Image Credit: Eric Erbe, via Wikimedia Commons).
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has created a strain of
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