Forgive Us Mother Earth
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Having read this article I thought it right to repost an older poem of mine, just to give emphasis on the dangers we are going to face! I pray to God that we all help to save this planet and as a consequence to save ourselves, our descendants and life in general on earth!
For decades now
We, your children, dear mother-earth,
Have been stabbing you,
Each year
Each day
Each hour
Each second,
Causing you to bleed profusely, while,
We indifferent to your suffering were:
Watching
Laughing
Drinking
Dancing and
Having lots of fun,
For
We thought your blood was inexhaustible and
That you would bleed forever, without any consequence on
Our own life,
But
Slowly, we came to realize that you are as mortal as we are,
Subject to the same laws of growth and decay,
A shocking thought, indeed, for us!
But
Despite this realization
We never stopped hurting you:
Your animals
Your forests
Your rivers
Your lakes
Your seas
Your oceans
You see, dear mother earth,
We have sacrificed all you have held dear for millions
Of years on the altar of our egoism and that of
Our vanity.
Now,
As we see you lie on your deathbed,
We, your conceited and spoiled children,
Have decided to give you the chance
To stop your bleeding
To end your torture and your agony, to have time
To recover.
Yes, we know,
Our action is not out of magnanimity or love for you,
But mainly out of fear, we might destroy our blasphemous species
That has overstepped the limits that our Lord and creator
Has put from the moment of his creation.
For that
I for one, on my knees, humbly, plead for your forgiveness,
For my participation in this horrid and
Macabre crime of Matricide!
(C) Demetrios Trifiatis
23 April 2016
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries signing on to it on opening day.
With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers melting, the pressure to have the Paris Agreement enter into force and to have every country turn its words into deeds was palpable at the U.N. signing ceremony.
"The world is in a race against time," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his opening speech. "The era of consumption without consequences is over."
Copyright © Demetrios Trifiatis | Year Posted 2017
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