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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-02-13 08:59 PM

Don't you just love those nature shows?
The ones where animals do all their wonderful things;
in the snows, the sands, the waters, the trees
and even in the air?
Wonderful and heart warming, fuzzy and scary, all at once.
(Of course it's all a set-up for the cameras
but don't we just love to be fooled in entertainment?)
And while we're peeping at the animals
(and even plants in time-lapse photography
to give a aura of happening)
we program ourselves to conveniently forget
we too, like it or not, are just as much part of...
"The Nature of Things."

Paradoxically we are much more a part of it
than any other life extant on Earth today.
So much a part of it, we can blow it up, poison it, burn it,
choke it with refuse. -- Kill it --
And for a few dollars more -
that's exactly what we are about to do.
Who'll stop us? The savannah lions? Sea lions? Dandelions?

By some exaggerated twist of mindless arrogance
The Earth human came to see himself
superior to the nature that supports him --
and yet, wonder boy that he is
never has he been able to take one breath,
one drink of water, one bite of food
that did not come from the very nature
he still believes he stands above and beyond.

No my friend, you are not special,
not some freak from space; not above:
you are human, you are Earth and you live or die by her.
Kill her, now you have the power.
Sell her as slave and prostitute into the hell you've created:
it's indeed your prerogative to do so - and your penchant.
But mark these words well - if you can still read -
You're not a predator, you're not a hero; you're not special:
you are a fool -- six billion times a fool --
only in this are you special; only in this can you take pride.

Oh but some of you believe you have gods?
Space brothers eagerly waiting with open arms
to save your worthless hides?
They are out there, certainly -
but safely waiting, out of reach,
waiting until you've gone, to the very last one.
Then they'll wait another billion years or so
(Just to be sure)
and they'll come to take another look at planet Earth.

They'll bring children to run and laugh in the wind
and they'll bring their own tools this time:
compassion, love, caring, nurturing, understanding, peace
and ... the one tool most feared by the greedy of this last day:
simple cooperation.

"Then shall Earth blossom again, and without fear"

Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2008-02-13 10:34 PM

WindWalker,

Yowl, love it Babe, you're the real thing.

Bobby

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2008-02-14 02:17 AM

I agree with Bobby, You're as real as it gets. Love your truthful way of thinking.
Ida

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2008-02-14 08:05 AM

May humanity awaken to love, to those values you mention in the last stanza.

It is not too late, I believe.

Margherita

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

4 posted 2008-02-14 08:20 AM

"The Earth human came to see himself
superior to the nature that supports him --"

~ Alas, sad but true of so many Earthlings.

I believe that now is the time for our "Space brothers" to "bring their own tools this time:
compassion, love, caring, nurturing, understanding, peace
and ... the one tool most feared by the greedy of this last day:
simple cooperation."

~ A brilliant and an important write! ~ and most assuredly a

Brava, WW!!!

Love, Harmony, Peace & Respect for Mother Nature,

EA

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2008-02-14 05:33 PM

you tell 'em, W.W.!...

"No my friend, you are not special...
you are human, you are Earth and you live or die by her(!)"

another 'important' write...by one who is so often a most
fine and effective 'voice' for Gaia! (and 'Universalism')

once again, v. serious and long-sustained applause!!

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

6 posted 2008-02-14 07:33 PM

I would like to second all those other
words of appreciation, a very good post.

Lindsay

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

7 posted 2008-02-14 07:34 PM

jiminy cricket and the dandelions thank you

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