Mother Earth vs. Humanity
This is a personal story that I want to share.
If it were about me, I wouldn’t ask you to care, but here’s an adventure, a long-fought affair. This boy navigates life finding those who agree, seeking out those with the planet-saving mentality.
He found the woods fleeing a broken life, thinking, why not stay? His mind was stuck between his mother and father. He saw the brook, splashed his face, and kneeled to pray.
Why don’t we stay in nature? It is a question worth asking; we should be with nature, not a slave to humanity’s masking!
He’d miss his parents and friends, but he knew they’d visit. But those emotions took second place to the needs more explicit.
He needed a bed, a place to sleep, fire, and food, so he thought about animals, where they might brood.
He gathered the pine bows that carpeted the floor, then dropped a dead tree branch and went on to explore.
He found a bluebird egg, a mushroom, and an orange newt! Though the late autumn season had bruised the crab-apple’s fruit.
As he looked at the mushroom, he thought it might hurt. What do you have to lose? Your life is broken; the world is broken; why not? It’s just a bite from the dirt.
An Amanita Muscaria white dots over rust, his head lay on the hill; his gaze wandered up. He pondered what else might he distrust? What else are the adults covering up?
The light streaks suspended dust particles over the ground, questioning, visioning vanguard, overcoming fright: the boy’s gaze cut, a bright moon, purple sky, yellow light.
Why don’t we stay in nature? Wasn’t this the world given to us by a creator? Why is humanity destroying the world? Why do we have rules that hurt people?
Long story made short, he fights for thirty years, resolving other issues because his own bring him tears.
Grown-up, he now walks in the forest; silence allows him to hear the troubled chorus.
Why don’t we stay in nature? It is a question worth asking; we should be with nature, not a slave to humanity’s masking!
And then the little boy's voice arrives on the scene; your dad had to leave; you stuck yourself in between. It made you hurt, and it made you stronger, now build something green.
Humanity is loving, but excess corrupts our rationale. We must understand the rationale before we judge it. We must be good stewards of this Earth because it’s our responsibility to our children and their children, and so on. Humanity’s needs are inherent within you, which is a symbiotic relationship with the Earth. When we fail, the Earth will live on without us. For the time we’re here, we must be good stewards. Grow up and outward, connect, and contribute: like mycelium. Educate.
Mother Earth is our God. Humans must educate. If we can’t do the job, then allow the Earth to medicate.
The biosphere is whole but also diverse. If we don’t understand, our lives are headed for worse.
The change we need is purported too big a disruption. In truth, we’re ending humanity’s corruption.
Why don’t we stay in nature? It is a question worth asking; we should be with nature, not a slave to humanity’s masking.
The boy’s grown up now, and he’s realized his own enemy, the resentment toward humanity now growing less steadily.
Thank you to the mentors who taught him about empathy. The boy went to the pine bows, woke up loving Humanity.
Let’s give love, shelter, and food — in that order.