I wrote this after I drove past a clearing of some of the forest I've been near to all my life.  They are building a new townhome community there.  I've seen far to much of this in the last few years, and that day it just put me over the edge.

Watching the busy city.  Does anyone else ever just sit and think? or are they too busy being a part of society?  Showing off that brand new Mercedes or boasting that promotion they got by smooth talking and conning they're way past the other guy.  I wonder.  Do all those "successful" people feel fulfilled?  Is there something missing?  Something they can't put their finger on?  They have a wife and kids, even a dog and maybe a cat, a "great" job and a huge house.  But, somehow, there's this gap, this loneliness.  Where did they go wrong?  They must have sacrificed something for all that success.  I think they sacrificed themselves.  Their heart and their soul.  They've forgotten who they were.  Do they wonder about life?  Reincarnation, whether there are higher powers.  They accept the scripture as fact and that's that.  It's a sad world with so many greedy selfish people who regard nothing as sacred.  Who murder forests so they will prosper.

So this emptiness of the soul...perhaps this is payment for what they've done to our mother earth.  These people don't think twice as they drive these deadly machines through the trees and chop them to tiny bits.  Their machines are so loud they can't hear the mother scream!  They refuse to listen to the agonies of the millions who live in these places.  They wouldn't think twice even if they knew they could be driving a whole species out of existence.

But the wife and kids, the dog, cat, large house and Mercedes is much more important to survival than anything mother earth can provide.  I suppose technology has superceded nature.

Maybe we will live in a big bubble where machines produce oxygen and we'll forget what the color green looks like and the sun won't be visible throught the cloud of smoke created by our "neccessities".  Only gray days will remain.  The world will be taken over by psychotic photophobics who forgot what it was like to stand in the natural warmth of the sun and breathe the fresh cleansing air created by nature.  Not this plastic oxygen pumped out by these machines we were forced to build by our negligence and utter stupidity.

How can we be so ignorant???  People think they'll meddle with the earth's natural resources.  It's ok, it'll grow back.  After we've successfully committed global suicide, the earth will restore herself.  She doesn't need our arrogant existence to survive.  Wake up!!!  You're only hurting yourselves.  I don't want to die in a cloud of industrial smoke, why do you???


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