What has oil done...
to humanity?
the environment?
this planet?
It created lines in the sand, greed, need, war, pain, bloodshed and turmoil.
It created corporations and lobbyists and crooked politicians who say one thing while doing another.
It created industries and factories, employing many to their own demise and even death.
It created deceit, shortcuts, a driving insanity in all humanity - liquid gold.
It created a carbon footprint bigger than any imaginable sci-fi beast.
It created mud flats that once thrived to be decimated and destroyed.
It created defective genes in what once was safe to consume.
It created clouds of smog, choking out the sun and breathable air.
It created a sickness, no vaccine can battle.
It created waters no longer able to sustain life.
It created catastrophic wounds unable of healing as mother earth bleeds this black sickness.
It created a monster that is watching us fatten up like lambs before the slaughter.
Note: These are just my recent thoughts and had to vent through creative writing. Feel free to add your own.