Encroaching Prospect of Modernity original

The modern metropolis seems to breathe

The fingers of the urban landscape
move steadily following the riverbeds and 
fertile valleys.
The modern metropolis seems to breathe, Stretching its arms, Scraping away topsoil, filling the earth’s pours with asphalt. 
Brilliant trees and wild beasts
fall to the bulldozer as modernity encroaches.
Cities, like volcanoes are an awesome site, 
in both their power to destroy and their talent to create.