Change

Can be good

Or bad,

But most often

It’s both.

A growth in society

Leads to new people

With new ideas

It also leads

To more crime

More waste

More problems

A growth of population

Requires more houses

Houses

That cut away

At the flaming mountains

Of the fall.

Or

There could be apartments

Tall buildings

Of people

Families

Pets

Children

Parents

All wanting to live here.

More people

Means more demand

For shopping

Food

Resources.

Those people

Will want to be able

To visit huge malls

And shopping centers

With hundreds of stores

The new buildings

Will cut away

At the landscape.

In Twenty-three years

Vermont

Will be forced to become

More industrial

Forced to create more jobs

For more people

The mountains

From Their lively summer green

To the forbidding winter white

Will remain

But

Will they be

The same?

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