I wrote the following piece some time ago, I actually have no real idea when, but I found it in an old journal. It seemed particularly relevant with all of the struggles and decisions going on around the world regarding what we are doing to nature and what in turn this is doing to us. We need to take off our shoes in the start of this new year and take some time to feel the earth and remember what sustains us. It's not a nice house and fancy car, it's the health and abundance of nature.
Losing sight
Lost sight
of reality
Wandering our concrete jungles obsessed with
the numbers of the machine
Time,
taxes, test scores…
Walls shut
out the breeze
Roofs shut
out the sky
But we shut
out everything
When
tomorrow is no different to our today
Merely
existing, toiling and disconnected.
Damaging
ourselves by shutting out the world,
Losing our
roots that have sustained us
Rewind the
clock, break down
the walls
Remember the wisdom
And wonder
of nature
Nature is
life, we are part of life.
We are not
meant to be cut off
Separation
allows complacence, greed
And
suspicion to grow.
Nurture and
reconnect, our lives will flourish
As well the
land and waters
If we care
and protect them
As we do
with false riches
And empty
happiness now.
Today needs
to be more than our tomorrow,
It needs to
be the world’s future.
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