Crucifixion of Our Nature

Many years ago David Suzuki came to Canberra (capital), and said we had 10 years to turn the world around, that was in the 90’s. My partner at the time painted a surrealist painting of nature crucified. It was very powerful. We gave the painting to David and this poem. Nature has endured more than humans yet we never think of it as a living being. I do, I feel it.

CRUCIFIXION OF OUR NATURE

Crucifixion
the human addiction,
massacred, uprooted and retired in waste,
cast aside in favour of the newest taste.

The steel edifice,
constructed out of place,
the crossroad of industrialisation
welded the superior race,
the redistribution of energy
remodelled the evolutionary face.

Raw materials,
the inputs to production,
infinite resources,
lay foundation to construction,
where growth is extraction,
consumption is distraction,
keeping busy are you occupied,
don’t be lazy,
don’t be tired,
now your retrenched,
but your really fired.

Searching for the key,
you pray on bended knee,
look for the hole,
look for the gap,
have the courage to change
the global map,
listen to the truth,
find your inner power,
the soft is the strong,
the strong is so weak,
balance is the solution,
that we must teach.