iced coffee

when humans begin drinking
iced coffee in the middle of winter
because they live inside
air conditioned rooms
and have never known anything else

we know that humanity
has strayed far, far away
from its roots in nature,
and the cycle of seasons
that guides everything,
everywhere

no one is to blame,
least of all the people who drink
iced coffee in any weather,

for the relentless march of
"modernity" and "development"
that brought us here
to a world guided by
machines an automatons
rather than the world
that gave birth to us


it is only for us to wonder
how long we will last
in a world where
all fruits are available
in all seasons
and there is no such thing
as night