Irreversible Changes

Plip plop the small stream trickling into a pond

the birds screeching loudly in harmony

the trees swaying with the breeze.

Click click a camera snaps

the shrieking stops

the first tourist.

Clink clink a camper’s tent

the bugs scurrying away

the disturbed land, layered with litter.

Echoes of children playing in a newly developed park

after dark, the smell of cigarettes gags the bugs

the loud shouting echoing in the silence.

The sound of screaming trees covered by loud machines

in place of the trees, in came a village

then a town,

then a city…

The colourful laughs of animals and plants

replaced by the sound of wind and cars

tall buildings looking out only to see concrete blocks

the city dull, and lifeless.