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| Earth was Alive and Dying
Janet Kuypers 4/22/17 Earth Day edit of “Everything Was Alive and Dying” I had a dream the other night I walked out of the city to a forest and there were neatly paved bicycle paths and trash cans every fifty feet and trash every ten And I walked deeper in to the forest managed to get away from the picnic tables and the outhouses that lined the forest edges the roaring cars gave way to the rustling of tree branches crackling of fallen leaves under my step when the wind tunneled through the wind whistled and sang as it flew past the bark and leaves I walked listened to the crack of dead branches under my feet and I felt a branch against my shoulder I looked up and I could hear the trees speak to me, and they said thank you for letting the endangered animals live here amongst us we do think they’re so pretty and it would be a shame to see them go and thank you for recycling paper because you’re saving us for just a little while longer we’ve been on this planet for so long embedded in the earth we do have souls, you know you can hear it in our songs we cling with our roots we don’t want to let go and I said, but I don’t do much, I don’t do enough and they said we know but we’ll take what we can get and I woke up in a sweat Do you even know why we should save the rain forest? Oh preserve the delicate balance, just tear the whole forest down, what difference does it make? Put in some orange groves so our concentrate orange juice can be a little cheaper did you know that medical researchers have a very, very hard time trying to come up with synthetic cures for diseases on their own? It helps them out a little if they can first find the substance in nature. A tree that appears in the rain forest may be the only one of its species. Or one like it may be two miles away, instead of right next to it. I wonder how many cures we’ve destroyed to plant more orange groves. Serves us right. everything is linked here we destroy our animals so we can be wasteful and violent we destroy our plants we destroy our earth we’re even destroying our air we wreak havoc on the soil, on the atmosphere we dump our wastes into our lakes we pump aerosol cans and exhaust pipes and these animals and forests keep calling out to me the oceans, the wind in the wild you have no power over anyone else now that we’re civilized we create our own wild maybe when we have all this power the only choice we have is to destroy ourselves and so we do |
