FIRST PLACE WINNER - 30 Day Image Prompt Contest - 30 writes in 30 days. AUG - SEP 2013 |
Disillusionment There’s an agreement, though we’re oft unaware, between nature and man for each others care. It is from her nurture that we grow and thrive, In her bounteous beauty, she keeps us alive. For far too long, we’ve turned our back and pretended that we would never lack the things that we needed. We didn’t learn we had to pay what we owed in return. You see everyday on news and TV another of nature’s catastrophes. A monsoon in Burma tears at the shore, food riots among the African poor. Glaciers melting at an alarming rate while deserts expand. It is beyond debate. We watch it all in comfort on TV insulated from the world’s reality. We can no longer keep heads in the sand. We need to take action and make a stand to help our earth as it’s always helped us. No longer can we ignore our solemn trust. If we go along blithely waiting for others it won’t be long before we discover that we have achieved one last distinction: We’ll be the last species facing extinction. Freed from the thoughtlessness of man the earth will revert to how it began. Patiently, bit by bit, it will discover its balance once more and start to recover. Perhaps on that bright far off future day a small tender green shoot will push its way with hope through the long fallowed earth and then a soft breeze will whisper “Let’s try again.” Day 19 - (item:1911718) Prompt: Image 1 (Desert with green sprout) |