Everything Is One

source : Longwalker

In the Old Ways, men and animals

spoke together,

lived connected and interdependent,

according to the teaching:

Everything Is One.

It is true,

what happens to one,

happens to us all.

Witness: floods, forest fires,

melting icebergs, warming seas,

species dying,

Mother Earth crying out

her distress.

Once, we lived

rooted like trees,

holding hands across the forest floor.

Now, the forests are falling;

the sky grows ever hotter.

People and wildlife

are on the move.

Cougars are falling from trees,

bears hiding their eyes

from the destruction 

of their world.

We are learning the hard way:

Everything Is One.

What happens to one,

will happen to us all.

for Susan's prompt at Midweek Motif: Biodiversity. 

I could write of its wonders, for there are millions. But its main teaching is the interconnectedness of all things, which certain people in power, in the US AND Canada, would do well to understand.