just some thoughts 9-26-12

If we let it go and stay this way
Our eyes will close forever and the world will stop
The sea washes away the scattered remains of consumerism,
Our earth screams for love, acceptance,
and gives us nothing but sustanance in return
The air catches our scattered pollution
and distributes it throughout the sustaining earth
making great care to give to all
there is constant give from the earth but constant take from its inhabitants
Human intervention is the cause and the solution
and yet we watch the news and the latest story is the royal wedding, the arrest of the latest corporate goon,
The treatment of the earth is a reflection of the treatment of human suffering
capturing the latest famine in Sudan, the war in Libya, the war of Israel and Palestine, is not enough to ease the enormity of it,
Just watching is not enough to help
We can not go in and we just have to watch as the world takes on more and more heavy, deepening contradiction,
As we conserve and recycle, billions of pounds of garbage remain
as we send food thousands of babies die
as we buy our diamonds, our clothes, our cars, our houses,
people die in the name of freedom, in the name of allah, in the name of God,
as we buy our houses someone else is losing theirs,
before they even move out someone is moving in.
when one inch of progress is made there is a detrimental reality waiting to block it.