the earth

the earth needs your attention now my friends
climate change has hit with great force and is moving rapidly
in it's course
i can feel it here in south florida
the air has changed
it is not the same balmy breeze that we once had last year
with it's feeling of aaaahhhhh now this is so refreshing
the air now is filled with pollutants
the areas in which i once loved to walk are different in the
way it feels, smells and just is
there are gas fumes about and it makes the place feel like
an intrusion on a place that is given by grace for refreshment
i have found a few places to sit that are clean for awhile and the very
next week that place feels different as the pollutants spread rapidly
with the heat here
so now my friends south florida is feeling climate change
the beginning ---
and one must act swiftly to alter this course, but acting swiftly
is not seen anywhere about
i don't notice a sense of alarm or anything that people need to get this
work done
it is simply left  to take it's course and go it's way in mischief
and wreak havoc like it is
where are our priorities?
If once my friend you have felt the feeling of not having good air to
breathe you may feel what i am saying, but even then i feel this sense
of complacence about it -- like oh well....
once this corner is turned like this
with the marks of climate change heavily on it -- the footprint of people
sunken in so strongly
the escalating movement of unconscious acts of abuse and misuse of our world
the earth and it's beauty held at such low priority as it is
there is no turning back
i am sorry to sound like an alarmist, but wake up people please
for i am one that walks the natural parts of the area in which i live every day for
hours and hours heat an all
and i have walked the natural parts of the land where i lived before too for hours and hours
and know every little shift in it's ways, every little beat of it's heart like a fine tune that whispers
hello, i am still here to breathe like a beautiful medicine for all to heal
and when i feel this atmosphere that gives life and love so openly being degraded as it is
it is a feeling like losing a part of yourself my friend this is true without a doubt
for the earth with it's wonders has given unto so so many a haven of sorts
a freshness beyond measure without asking anything in return
one must be concerned too with the upcoming of our young people
how will they survive?
how will they be able to find balance? For the earth gives the balance and energy for
all to live without one being aware of it
it is there always

and my friends right now with this writing, it is just words right?
nothing that will truly make a difference, i know
but i can tell you that it is a way of saying thank you to the earth for what it gives
and has given
and even with the strong stamp of human feet on it now in the natural areas
like a smokey reminder that yes this change has come and will continue to come
the trees still look the same, the dirt, the sky, the clouds
are still beautiful
but there is a change
a corner has been turned
a reminder that the world is growing rapidly and putting business, economy, industry
money, power first
leaving the quiet beautiful things that give us all life, gives us all what we have taken for granted
on the lowest rung of the ladder
and what to do?


but please souls do ponder this awhile
for you have children and people you love
you want to be enjoying beauty of nature for a long while
please souls do ponder this
for things are changing rapidly, very very rapidly....