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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-07-10 09:32 PM

Crashing monster boulders
may crack a turtle's hard shell,
but a constant daily onslaught
of bothersome sticks and 'pebbles'
doesn't appear to leave a dent.
Question: what happens though
if the turtle is overwhelmed
with the small stuff?
If she can’t crawl out from under it?

Planet Earth is like that turtle:
no great “earth changes”
are about to bring all to an end.
All the little things done each day
don’t seem to make much of a dent
in the hard shell of the planet –
but what of a “bog down” –
a complete social collapse?
What if, as a species we give in –
follow our fears, our hatred, our greed
and sink ourselves helpless?

Enter the final phase of destruction:
the enabling of the last holocaust
with weapons of mass destruction poised
over the last oil reserves;
vast armies crawling over mountains
to loot, pillage, rape and murder;
cities burning until the smoke
covers even the light of the sun
from pole to pole..

And who, when it is all over
shall record the events; the final story
of man’s aborted stay upon this world?
Who shall care even, or want to know
what happened that a so-called intelligent life
never heard the call for understanding
or heeded the simple challenge of compassion?

And the final eulogy for Man will still be
“From dust were ye made
and to dust hast thou returned.”

XOx Uriah xOX
Senior Member

since 2006-02-11

Posts 1403
Virginia

1 posted 2006-07-15 12:21 PM

Another powerful write.
It is said...  There was a great flood that wiped out almost all life on earth.  I do not doubt this.   And yet...  Here we are.
It is said... That there was an ice age that wiped out almost all life on earth.   I dont doubt this.   And yet...  Here we are.
I don't doubt the possibility of things mentioned in this writing.   But, mostly the... And yet...   is never doubted.
::smiles::    enjoyed

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2006-07-15 12:43 PM

The tiniest drop of water can erode a giant boulder. Some of us are doing our best to harm our world while small bands of watchdogs ae ridiculed for their efforts to sop up the mess. Great poem. love, Joyce

TinaTrivett
Senior Member

since 2006-07-15

Posts 569

3 posted 2006-07-15 09:44 PM

Very powerful & very true. Mother Natures battle cry will be the loudest of them all.

Hokahey!!

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

4 posted 2006-07-16 05:12 PM

Terrific work WindWalker! As Stephen Hawking told the story... "It's turtles all the way down."

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2006-07-16 05:39 PM

Excellent work, Windwalker...

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