Indeed all Life is strange: complexities of Nature punctured with mysterious happenstance or fate in random places.
Listen. Mother Earth’s solid crust shuddered more than once,
tearing down an entire race of a chaste class. (Haiti)
Hear Her waters crushed onto shores without restrain,
claiming in its path the sorrows of a million lives. (Pakistan)
Watch Her roots, the Earth’s pillars, succumb to sudden fires,
causing both wild and peaceful herd to flee. (Russia )
Feel Her winds wrestled with the horizon calm,
crashing any and all that is tangled in its swirl. (New York)
Fear Her mounds spewing black ash across vast lands,
breaking the silence of the sublime. (Indonesia)
Then understand it is only either by greed or by fault:
Human error spilled the oil across the Gulf.
Chilean miners are trapped,
Allied soldiers are bombed,
Afghan Talibans are shunned.
Make sense out of the nuclear tension in Korea;
the labor unrest in Greece.
The looming jobless in the once “green pastures” of America.
When Nations fall into the new divide,
Count the Final Tally.
Then let Father Time forestall its warning.
as we wait for Mother Nature to cleanse her earth.
But yet, there are compensations, things to console with:
Rescue and aid from strangers they may be, leap across all corners of the World.
Homeless birds, though soaked to death in oil, heal in human hands to soar again.
Ocean species, while besieged by tainted currents, converge in untouched territories to breed again.
Pine trees & purple flowers, though aging & uncared for, bloom in eternity.
Races unite for many a cause,
And for many, a new consciousness arises.
Come, assemble under the changing weather
And let Mankind shift itself.
It is only in its transformation that the season bequeaths itself away.
