EARTH TO MAN

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    EARTH TO MAN


    You are my family - and I love you,
    but why do you thoughtlessly throw garbage
    on my fields, and bottles and cans
    into my rivers and streams?

    You are my family - and I love you,
    but why do you think your desires,
    your wants and fears, must
    override others?

    I have taken you to my breast,
    and have nurtured your generations,
    and have shown you all of my
    pleasures and treasures.

    You are my family - and I love you,
    but why do you hurt each other, as if you
    are not related and interdependent
    upon each other. You give others pain
    and give it no thought.

    You are my family - and I love you,
    ...but I do not understand you.

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    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

    Stryx’s Poems (203)

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