Amnesia

Amnesia

A gigantic steel scoop
Plunges into the virgin soil
 
Earth’s skin and morrow
Undisturbed in millennium of millennium
 
Layer on layer of stardust and evolution
Sometimes gentle, sometimes harsh
 
Infused with life forms of
Uncountable variety
 
Interconnected
Balanced
Communicating
Praying together in continued unity and gratitude
 
Existing because they are given to, and
Giving to all that
Surrounds them
 
This is how life works

Giving to all others
Given to by all others
Effortlessly
Is how Life works
 
This agreement seems to be understood
By all life forms except for
The homo sapiens species
Who subscribe to a different Bible
Serve a different pantheon
Of gods than Nature
Greed
Selfishness
Profit
 
And so
It is possible for a man
Without remorse
Desensitized from a lobotomy
With Nature and the Living Earth, to
 
Plunge his ten-ton knife
Into Her bleeding heart
And rip and tear
And love the power of it
 
The roar of giant diesel engines
Obliterating the scream of
A million billion trillion voices
Disrupted in their slumber
 
A scream that ripples
Throughout the planet

And the operator who
In his unawareness
Has just lacerated himself
 
Weakening his resilience
And that of his children
And theirs
And all future generations
 
The Earth is our Life
 
What we do to Her we do to ourselves
 
Human Earthlings
Wake up!
 
Please wake up!

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