E a r t h R i s e s The moon and the sun rises. And with each daylight and upon nightfall, we are in awe always of its beauty. Moon sets and sun sets, and we wonder who created such magnificence. Have we ever looked at the ground we are standing on? Why do you think the stars trail? Why the sun sets and rises? Look at your feet firmly anchored to her, our mother earth. As seemingly superior to other life forms, we, humans, pride ourselves on our superiority to the animals, but while we, with all our greatness, defile the earth wherever we appear and leave an ignoble trail behind us -- and if we succeed, the planet will grow sterile and we will die in hunger, thirst and waves of plagues. We will die more slowly because the poisons here will render us unable to conceive. The skies will cease to be blue, the land will lose its verdure and the seas, well, the seas will be the first to go. Anything that does survive will be broken, mutant, discontinuous .. from us, mutually exclusive. It will be the new life of a shattered world, a world for chitinous, arthropods of exoskeletons crawly things, not one for soft and tender emotions we are made to be. So here we are .. slowly destroying ourselves and we desiccate the earth where all the stars trail and for which the sun and the moon rises and sets .. Look at our own two feet anchored firmly to her while we destroy her in cold blood while we, in all of our greatness, speak of love .. ever-lasting, conquer-all love .. to simple minds like mine, it sounds like .. innocence of cruel arrogance. _____________________________________ by theouvr