Growth

Growth

Progress, population, peace,

That's what they claim it to be

Trees uprooted, infrastructure laid, on a haven of fields and forests

only a few decades before with silence and nature

now with gravel, bricks and steel, more will live here than mother earth designed

convenience trumps balance and life, cars must be parked and constrained lives must be built

fifty square meters is a steal until those who need them the most are priced out

progress, population and peace. This is what the war began over.

And this is the result of such. Progress, population and peace.

Exchanged and bought and sold, all for convenience, pollution and isolation.

The blood of the victims, the tears of a land, the pavement of modernity,

just so that we can achieve what we deem to be our national dream.