For the Sake of Progress

Progress comes at great expense……
The crunch of paper and jingle of coin in your pockets
Work to create progressive movement
In exchange for opinions and beliefs
Compromise without compromising principles

Progress - a visible passage of time
Are we afraid of progress?
Shifting sands that don’t wait
Balance and logic connect our principles 
To projected progress that
Takes the expense of time
Time while we run our dishwashers
Instead of washing dishes by hand

Which costs more to clean our dishes?
Hands or a silver box that whirrs and sloshes?
The convenience that is progress
Comes from ideas
Ideas that build plants
Plants that employ many workers

And where does the environment fit
in the inexorable move of progress
while we leach from the earth?
Progress comes at great expense.

“Progress is measured by the speed at which 

we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”

~ George Monbiot