We must mourn the waste of the earth
as caretakers we have quit caring about
what we are leaving behind for future
generations.
It is our responsibility to care for what
Mother Nature has given us, she has
nourished us and allowed us to live off her
good graces.
Our treatment of Earth is sinful and
the selfish people numb me
who take from it and refuse to give
back by loving her as they do their own
gluttony. Give back as much as you
want to take away from her.
Are we demons that live in high
towers above the filth left upon the
land. Does that make us good
Bastards?
Take from the earth only what is
needed or evil will come and rob
you of your children’s future filled
with the beauty of Mother Nature
Is it too late, will we never catch up
from our pilferage and lack of
wisdom. The landscape continues to
change, will it become sinister and dank
transformed into a wasteland filled with
greed.
The stink may vanish, in a cloudless
thousand years, but can those of us
who cared about Earth today take comfort
in the fact that someone finally listened?
©2014.annjohnsonmurphree
ann johnson-murphree 
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