God is Good and Men are Fools

Everything you created and everything you do is good

O Maker of Heaven and Earth.

Aren't the flowers magnificient in their bloom?

The mountains hauntingly beautiful even from the distance?

The gentle gurgling of the stream a balm to the soul?

The stunning sing song of birds a wondrous way to wake up every morning?

How marvelous the work of your hands!

What a creative detailed God.

You thought of everything.

You thought of us when you made the Earth.

We praise you for your abundant goodness.

Now we ask for your forgiveness O merciful Father

for we have ruined the perfect world you made for us.

We have stripped the oceans of fish

and destroyed the mangrove playgrounds of fishlings.

We have flattened our hills and clogged the rivers.

Chopped down trees and put up concrete pavements.

Eat things we don't have to and throw out what others can use.

You gave us natural products, we made plastic ones.

You gave us green fields and we poured poison into them.

What fools!

Can't we see?

We will ourselves ingest this poison,

and have the residue from plastic seep into our veins.

The beauty of the Earth, will be replaced with garbage

The trancending winds will pivot into raging storms

The gentle sunshine already eschewed for burning rays!

The sources of our food, clean water and CO2...extirpated!

We have subverted rain into acid

Converted drains and streams to sewers.

Redirected rivers, and

Halted the passage of animals.

Alas...We have turned on ourselves!

We are the antitheses of perfection

the terminators of our age

The annihilators of our inheritance.

The wreckers of our children's heritage.

Man... we are but fools, buffoons

And we leave a legacy of imprudence, selfishness and greed

In our wake.