Musings on The Planet

Allow me to beat you to the punch: "What do I know about anything?
I'm just a school-teacher who has degrees in English and Communications.
What do I know about this Round Ball which hangs precariously in the universe?
(And why do I even feel thusly, that I would use this word, precariously?)"

Let me assure you: we are most certainly on the same page, Friend.
I suppose I find it strange to discover that I am an Advocate for This Planet.
Yes, Advocate. Not a "Go Green" Nazi, but a Rational Human Being
Who thinks it's dastardly to so blatantly disregard this human home we've been given.

Who cares what I think about it--I'm no physicist, no Einstein, no theoretician;
Just an Arm-Chair Appreciator of all things Nature.
I realize nothing has to last forever, and I see the waste and abuse of this Earth and think,
"We've been given such fabulous gifts!"...which we take for granted.

Call me crazy, but I am flabbergasted by the utter lack of concern
For our Earth, for the Nature God has gifted us with, for our Earth's Core,
And I wonder if it even matters that this total disregard for the Universe in Balance
Is due to Ignorance and Self-Absorbance and Ego-Centrism.

Some of us are still convinced that the Sun rotates around the Earth,
And/or that the Earth rotates around our human form: my life, my wife, my child, my concerns.
Surely THAT is the reason that makes people ignore what we are doing to our planet:
Poisoning Earth and Sky and Sea and Core...Somehow believing it doesn't impact us.

Yet one day, One Day, Friends, it will affect us all--every single one of us,
As our descendants, with our very own DNA in their bodies, struggle to breathe
And battle the carcinogens we are responsible for unleashing into their environment.
We lived for today so they can die for tomorrow.

"Drink this bitter cup with pride, my children," says our letter to their World;
"We did what we wanted and when, with little to no regard for you.
We never thought you'd live to see that day, anyway. Damned, from the get-go."
Our Legacy to them all: Fatalism in lieu of Altered Consciousness.