This opinion piece will
never be published by any mainstream source.
It is too bleak in the suggestion that it is already over for us on
earth. [PLEASE let me be spectacularly wrong.]
I have chosen the haiku three line format as a discipline to condense
what could become a non-stop howl of despair.
Disclaimer: Traditional haiku is
an appreciation of something in nature.
These haiku are angry obituaries for our biosphere.
This play’s final scene
Was written unwittingly
Farce and tragedy
Our worn life raft leaks
Every next indulgence sows
Unjust tomorrows
Choose what is easy
Grab profits without a
care
Spread all losses
Our frail life raft leaks
Full of thoughtless tiny
holes
Stop drilling to bail
More people plus less
Water and arable land
Yields world wide hunger
No overflow rooms
No emergency air lifts
A closed system globe
While it survives complete
destruction planet earth will continue to evolve as it always has. Humans may go
extinct (along with nearly all other forms of life) but our planet will likely
still exist for untold eons, perhaps even long enough and fortuitously enough
to create life anew. I grieve for the loss of our beautiful and hospitable Eden of a life raft.