Forgive Us Mother 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 Dinking Dancing and Having a good time 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 decay, A shocking thought was indeed for us! But In spite of 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 to the altar of Our egoism and that of Our vanity Now, As we see you lie in your death bed, We, your conceited and spoiled children, Have decided to give you the last chance To stop your bleeding To end your torture and your agony so as to give you Time to recover Yes, we know, Our action is not out of magnanimity or of 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 set from the moment of his creation For that I for one, on my knees, humbly I plead 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."