Sunday, April 23, 2023

And Then We Came

 



Tell the stories of all who have been lost,
the poet said, and so I think of them,
the nameless ones I did not know,
already gone, and the many
who are right now in danger of
passing from the earth: the orca, the rhino,
the mountain gorilla, the red panda.

All their stories, of life and death,
 are much the same:
they lived in a wild
and bountiful garden,
and then we humans came.

5 comments:

  1. Sad and then humans came and took their existence...sigh...

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  2. Oh the humans!! I have just finished "The earth transformed" by Peter Frankopan on the history of climate and the current situation. Fascinating insight...also terrifying.

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  3. And we have trouble making room for anything else.

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