The Sky Gods are angry.
Down below, dragons are breathing fire,
and raining down rocks
and fire and floods
upon the villagers.
"Help us!" we cry,
for we are weak, and afraid.
"We are aware of the problem,"
the Sky Gods say,
"but we are very busy."
Meanwhile villagers, children, elders,
creatures wild and tame,
are suffering.
The Sky Gods appear
to be unmoved by
their anguished cries.
What can we earthlings do
to smooth the rifts
between the people of the earth,
each other and other earthlings,
between commoners and government,
or one country and another?
How do we cross
the unbridgeable chasm between
corporate greed and a struggling climate?
When will we understand
we must heal our disconnection,
remember that we are all one,
that what happens to one happens to us all?
How can we make the Sky Gods
smile again?
Send the dragons back to sleep
in their caves?
We must find a way
to heal our minds and spirits,
and find our way back
to the garden.
If not now,
then, on the other side
of cataclysm,
we will be required
to begin again.
for Sumana's prompt at What's Going On : Rifts. Very timely.
Alas, the sky gods have seemed pretty impotent recently to do anything to solve the earthlings' problems. But WAIT -- we must heal our own disconnection. Where will be start? When?
ReplyDeletethe unbridgeable chasm between
ReplyDeletecorporate greed and a struggling climate? - yes.. climate seems to have gone off the front pages despite all that is happening!
You've captured the chaos we are in now, so perfectly, Sherry. The sky gods are having a hearty laugh at us and perhaps waiting for the perfect time to press the button for 'cataclysm'.
ReplyDelete"What can we earthlings do
to smooth the rifts
between the people of the earth,
each other and other earthlings,..." Will the rifts be ever smoothed? Humans with so much ego are not capable of doing the smoothing job, methinks. Sigh.
""We are aware of the problem,"
ReplyDeletethe Sky Gods say,
"but we are very busy."
Busy with what? Better to tell us without a parable that we have to do it ourselves! Will we ever? My poem, I think, is about the same thing, but I like your dragons and sky gods!
Those sky gods are lazy bozos. Glad we have a God who loves us and cares for us. I loved ♥ reading your write's? This one too!!
ReplyDeleteI love where your imagination took you - and so captivatingly described - Jae
ReplyDeleteHmmm, God helps those who help themselves, Sherry. The sooner people realise that we are the masters of our own fate and begin to actively do things to change the status quo, the better it is for everyone. Well penned!
ReplyDeleteThe outcome is looking dire. Reminds me of the Titanic as the band plays while the ship goes down.
ReplyDeleteThe world situation is not looking good. It is said god gave us free will, with that comes a responsibility to nurture the world and its creature. I am afraid we have fallen short as humans.
ReplyDeleteIt is said god gave us free will but, I fear we are not good stewards of the world and its creature. There are too many 'I" and not enough "we" sigh.
ReplyDeleteIt is said god gave us free will but, I fear we are not good stewards of the world and its creature. There are too many 'I" and not enough "we" sigh.
ReplyDeleteIt is said god gave us free will but, I fear we are not good stewards of the world and its creature. There are too many 'I" and not enough "we" sigh. "We Are All One" indeed.
ReplyDeleteIt is said god gave us free will with that comes responsibility to nurture the world and all its creatures. I fear we have lost our way. "We Are All One" indeed.
ReplyDelete"We are stardust, we are golden
ReplyDeleteWe are caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden" (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
I immediately though of this song. There has got to be a way back.
"We are stardust, we are golden
ReplyDeleteWe are caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden"
(Crosby, Stills, & Nash)
I immediately thought of this song.
There has to be a way back.