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Open Poetry #37

Stop and Think!

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-04-12 10:35 AM

Is it really so wrong
that one of nature's mammals
kills a human being?
Let's stop and think
if only for a moment:
we feel the need to control
to protect our space;
we freely kill wildlife infringing
upon our claim to the world
so if we infringe upon their space
why can't they in turn
defend their own territory,
their home, if they feel threatened?

We claim to believe in justice
so it seems a simple thing to understand:
we are all a part of nature,
nature is a part of us
so if we wantonly, unjustly destroy,
inexorable laws of our physical order
state that over time
we must destroy ourselves:
physicists call it entropy,
others, recycling.

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                 "I wonder: are we so big and mighty,
                    or just small, selfish fragments
                         tossed from the cosmos?"

StevenS
Senior Member

since 2005-09-21

Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)

1 posted 2006-04-12 11:04 AM

WindWalker Defender of Mother Earth, you can't carry her weight every day. Sometimes you just have to trust her creator to see her through. :-)

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2006-04-12 02:48 PM

Steven has a point but perhaps the earth is just giving us the reins to hang ourselves. Some people just don't stop let alone stop AND think so please continue to bring nature to their attention.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2006-04-14 06:34 AM

Windwalker, I am with you all the way!

- Owl

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