Attribution: Andreas Weith
Image: Food is already Scarce with Climate
Change what more with Conflicts! (here)
Let there be light
day and nights
Let the waters gather
and dry land appear
Let there be living creatures
and man rule over on earth.
Thus the soil was tended for sustenance
Man evolved into brilliance and eminence
But man staked a claim
and stamped his mark with his name
Borders were created greed appeared
Erupting in disputes and conflicts ensued
Misguided leaders bent on killings
and accentuating pain and sufferings
Might was right on human conscience a blight
Shouts of sacrilege heard against those privileged
Man had gone insane and it never seemed the same, again
Bjorn at d'Verse's - soil poetics
Well written. So sad where we now find ourselves. Yet there is hope.
ReplyDeleteHank, you poem has a message indeed. Man has gone insane and I do believe some have.
ReplyDeleteThis is almost like the original sin. I think this is why we were evicted out of Eden
ReplyDeleteThere is always "Hope" Hank. beautifully written. well done.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
A travesty we humans have done...such reality written with passion for life. Cheryl-Lynn
ReplyDeleteStirring poem! And I couldn't agree more. Man had gone insane and it never seemed the same, again
ReplyDeleteHumans have always been nuts, they just got better at hiding it these days. Might always makes right it seems.
ReplyDeleteMan staking his claim and stamping his mark with his name, says it all. What will it take to acknowledge that it is and never was all about us?
ReplyDeleteWe have to be careful with what provides us with sustenance.
ReplyDeleteEverything was going well until greed appeared it seems.. sigh.. Powerfully penned.
ReplyDeleteYes, never the same again ~ I say we have gone backwards with our greed ~
ReplyDeleteyes. sadly, truer words have not been spoken ~
ReplyDeleteman has always been insane...maybe just more so now.
ReplyDeleteSadly, man, the crown of creation, fell into sin which produced a blight on the garden. We need to be better stewards.
ReplyDeleteSo well written. Sad but true.
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