Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Saw It Coming

On a limb and sawing it off

Busily is humanity,

And all the while the common scoff

That no real problem does there be.

The human animal is odd,

Having a brain that should be smart,

Put in by happenstance or God.

Humans just seem to fall apart

On making decisions of worth

That would help and not hurt us all,

Who live here sharing planet Earth.

But humans seem intent to fall.

I guess it's a suitable fate.

This tree could bear a lighter weight.