![]() 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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