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   Shifting Sand
With demand building,
With buildings demanded
We dredge, extract, construct.

The sandpits of the globe
Are yet another battlefront
Against the degradation
Of our world.

Another site of speculation
For a never-ending market
Pillaging what still exists
Across our world.

Blocked by barriers and dams
The sands of rivers never
Make it to the shore, never
Reach the strands of the coast
The threadbare seams
Between land and sea.

We should see what is
Happening around us.
Yet another part in
The never-ending story of loss.