EARTH TREE
I
suspect that the greatest threat to civilisation is what we are busy
doing to our own home: the biosphere and climate of Earth. Even
without the disasters that are, I believe, already occurring through
climate change, if we simply continue to expand and destroy nature
that supports us where will it end? The subtle swapping of verb
tenses in this poem is deliberate.
EARTH
TREE
If earth were once a great, green tree then breathing out the breath of life through thousands of its sap-veined leaves, all shimmering in sun, with all the singing souls like birds, would we regret false words and ruination from our hands... when all that's left is silence and a black, charred stump? Will we regret the greed and blind neglect? How shall we stand?
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