A Message Or a Warning?

Echoing around the world

Do you hear it?

Are you listening?

A message or a warning?

Mother Nature’s Wrath Comes silently,

washing

AWAY

Away and Gone

Lives, families, Villages

She shakes Her head

Shrugs Her shoulders.

A hundred thousand and more are dead.

Nature does what Nature does.

Her intent to re-create Herself,

Knows no Humanity.

We pitiful humans

Can only cling

To Her heaving sides

And Pray.

Pray that our foolish Civilization

Our belief that we have conquered Her

Will not cause more deaths.

Be it another wave,

another quake

Another mudslide

Another fire.

We are expendable.

Our time on this blue marble is short

Short in the book of Mother Earth days.

We fight Her in every way

Trying to bend Her

To our will.

And She shrugs us off.

Teaching us we are nothing

One more time.

Are you listening?

2005 Judi Brannan Armbruster