Matricide
For many decades now
We- your unfeeling and spoiled children- dear mother earth,
Have been mistreating you
Each second
Each minute
Each hour
Each day
Each month and
Each year
Causing you untold harm and suffering from the passing of time
By:
Polluting your fertile land
Your crystal-clear waters and
Your pure vivifying air
Thus
Sadistically making you bleed profusely and rendering you sterile
While
We remained indifferent before your predicaments and continued
Laughing
Drinking
Dancing and
Having fun
For
We thought you were immortal and that your natural resources were inexhaustible
But
Slowly we came to realize that you are as mortal as we are
Subject to the same laws of decay
A shocking realization for us was it indeed
However
In spite of that horrible realization
We kept slaughtering your animals
Burning your forests
Polluting your rivers and
Your lakes
Your seas, and
Your oceans!
You see, dear mother earth,
We have sacrificed all you have held dear for millions of years to
The altar of profit
Of our egoism and that
Of our vanity
And still now as we see you lie on your death-bed
We, your conceited children,
Are going on debating if we should give you another chance
To stop your bleeding
To end your torture and your agony so as for you
To find time to recover
So the future is not robbed of the miracle of life!
Yes, we know,
Our intended action is not out of compassion or love for you
But mainly out of fear, we might obliterate our blasphemous species
Which has overstepped the limits our Lord and Creator have set since the Moment of creation.
For all the above crimes, dear mother earth,
I for one, on my knees, humbly plead your forgiveness
For my participation in this horrid and macabre crime of
MATRICIDE
Furthermore,
I pledge that from now on, all my thoughts, words, and deeds would aim
At your protection and the protection of all, you hold dear!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
11 November 2019
* Recently 11,000 scientists criticized the governments of the world that have done little or nothing to protect the environment. Humanity seems to slowly realize the grave danger of an upcoming catastrophe. Unfortunately, Man has focused his attention on profit and on killing one another, ignoring completely CLIMATE CHANGE which appears to be the heavy sword of vengeance of cosmic justice!
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Demetrios Trifiatis
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