Lying dormant underground a thief of life is waiting............
Lying dormant underground a thief of life is waiting to steal the breath from those unaware. Unknown to man until this time when care has not been taken to save our souls from what is lying there.
Now who is to say what can be done to stop the devastation, spreading like fire among us one and all? As we discover that which we have done to live is now the very thing heralding our own ending call.
To live the lives that bring our ease we care not what we take. Removing every resource from the ground Then we stand in shame when all goes wrong when the sun goes down.
We have burned a path among the trees and vines that protect us. Stolen the very air from our skies. Now we stand among the ruins of our own creation watching the Earth as we know it say goodbye.
Reading this I think of this world of Concrete Jungle we all live in. Where I live, only twenty years ago we had orange and avocado groves all around us. It was still a small town in the wilderness.
Neva - your last stanza says it all, dear
We have burned a path among the trees and vines that protect us
Stolen the very air from our skies
And now we stand among the ruins of our own creation
Watching the Earth as we know it, say goodbye
There is much imbalance in the way this cultures lives, it is not sustainable, and will end at some time in the future...makes me sad to see the destruction in the world, must be stopped, but I don't know how, the ones that cause the destruction are blinded by their profits and the rest of us are stuck consuming their products...there is no clear path out of this mess...thank you for the poem that has me thinking still.
The imminent destruction of the world is something I think about all the time. I have heard many people say that they believe in the apocalypse of 2012. The end of the world will not come now, but later in the future. At our own hands. We will destroy ourselves, which is the saddest thing of all. Worse, Nature is beating us about with droughts, storms, and earthquakes. We do deserve it.
This is the core of all that I have been thinking about. You made me feel sad. We will waste away.
Ooo I adore a great piece such as this.
"What have we done" and what haven't
we done to this terra firma we call
home? Definitively thought provoking...
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