Natural Causes

NATURAL CAUSES

This and the next two poems, moments of reflection as we drive ourselves into extinction by ignoring all the warnings on climate change and global warming. Even if it is a natural cycle of things there is consensus that we are accelerating the process and along the way poisoning ourselves. I fear for our children and their children when projections give us only a few more generations to enjoy life on earth.

Written on the same i-phone I took this picture with immediately after launching one of our balloons to fly over Teotihuacan’s Sun Pyramid on a beautiful morning when it is hard to imagine that such a crisis is looming.

A photograph for the morning As about us day is dawning The sun comes up before us To warm us and restore us Remind us of the reasons The joy of life its seasons On this planet simply wonderful Plentiful and bountiful

We should be ever grateful Not mean or slack or hateful Our mother earth’s observing One species undeserving Attacking her destroying With the tactics we’re employing She is mighty, she is glorious And expecting so much more of us

Curators of her gifts and beauty Just part of it but with a duty To use the power that’s in our hands To protect the seas, the air, the lands Respect all living things that share her Not violate her, strip and bare her Until she has no more resources Than to end it all by Natural Causes