Gaia's death

A howling wind rages across a barren land...
a land that once was fertile...
before the wandering of man ravaged it...
all in his greed and ambition...
longing to live for eternity...
but yet to live forever one must die...
and the world was ravaged for eons...
and I kneel to a tree and touch it...
and I pull away as if I had touched an
ember of fire...
I hear the howling cry as gaia is
slowly killed...
and yet it is in my mind I see this...
is it the future to come...
I do not know...
I wake from the dream...
breathing rapidly...
holding myself...
seeing it all in my mind...
but yet I feel as tho my hand was
burned by a fire...
how could this be?
Did I see what is to be?
Did I see the end of what I call home?
the end of gaia?
                           J.McNamara