The Belo Monte investment could be the worst ever use of money

Supporting Belo Monte
is poor judgement
on your part
you think your making
millions but your
not using your heart
along the River Xingu
40,000 souls
live and work and
to displace them
just proves to me
how poles
apart you are
370 miles are going to
be
flooded, all those
trees and plants
lost to history

Indigenous people
we are all indigenous
they stayed on
to protect our forests green
you moved to your city
your concrete, and the pity
apparently has left you
this investments it is mean
The forest are the planets lungs
our lungs, if you will
flooding it is no investment
truthfully it will kill
all the hope, the livelihoods
of hundreds of sweet folk
is this what you call
progress
its more of a sick joke
Belo Monte is a massive error
its terror to the people, and
Brazil
must not allow this massive dam
to now come to fruition
for all those people’s
spirits it will kill

Now is the chance to wrestle
with emotions
To realise the folly of your ways
the effort far exceeds
the awful outcome
and obviously there are still
sufficient days
to pull out, for to realise
the error
the terror
that this Belo Monte Dam
is going to do to the people
the people of the Xingu
whose consciousness is exactly
where I am
lost in what is a strange
realm of limbo
so much living forest
wasted here
We’ve almost reached
the gravest of grave
scenario’s
with 40,000 people
steeped in fear
to me it cannot be
allowed to happen
If this threat became a
reality, it would mean
environmental degradation
on an awful scale
and an end to what
is all this land, so green
all these souls submerged
in mud and perils far beyond
a place of desolation
from the start
no one could imagine
Just how ghastly this would be
But just go and see

one child just one
with a broken heart

and multiply that up
by say 2000
those tears, the cost
its absolute this pain
money in a bank account
can never be a just reward
for those of us
who lose
whilst other’s gain

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.
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