The Ascendant Nature of Humanity’s Industrialisation Matthew Alvaro, Year 9 Look up beyond the century’s horizon Where the light of our work and more to come, Already has stained the skies With colours so strange and new. The abrogation of Terra Firma’s laws She becomes ours, Filled with human contraptions Built with those nimble yet careless fingers. Beaches paved to make way for our imaginations, New valleys carved by our very hands, Lift up your heads, As we were not created to fixate on dirt and grass all our lives. Though from the devastated vegetation There rose an edifice that was no less than Babylon, A triumphant that dwarfed the gigantism of the Reich’s Berlin, We still retain these killing fields. Gracious Gaia our glorious giver, The rumble of the green goes silent, Your toleration of our blunders bleeds your anatomy At the expense of your body. These charnel pastures serve as a reminder That though we have replaced it with Olympus There has never been a heaven, That was not built on other bones. “Lift up your heads, As we were not creat- ed to fixate on dirt and grass al l our lives.” Jun Han Yap 42.