Free Us From Devils

 Mother Earth chokes
on dust and flames
while we drink
the last drops of water
from plastic.

Shakespeare wrote,
“Hell is empty and
the devils are here.”
The truth is they’ve
always walked among us.

Give a man a rock,
and he’ll steal a mountain
to call himself rich.

Everything wild is not
being tamed...It is being
slaughtered so the faux gods
of tech can fantasize about immortality.

Hope is not a commodity
that can be bought, bottled,
packaged or stolen.

When anger born from injustice
is channeled into compassion,
there is no currency that can match its wealth.

©Susie Clevenger 2026