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I am Nature Crucified

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I am Nature Crucified 
"I am Nature crucified, hungry, thirsty, imprisoned, naked, abandoned – wishing some souls to stop, look and listen. "

Dr Abe V Rotor 
Living with Nature - School on Blog

                                                            Silhouette of a tree skeleton, Manila


I am Nature crucified, Paradise lost to my own guardian

whom my Creator assigned custodian of the living earth;


I am Nature crucified by loggers, my kin and neighbors 

annihilated, forever removed from their place of birth;


I am Nature crucified by slash-and-burn farming dreaded

- once lush forests now bare, desertification their fate;


I am Nature crucified, greedy men with giant machines

take hours to destroy what I built for thousands of years;


I am Nature crucified in the name of progress, countries 

vying for wealth and power, fighting among themselves; 


I am Nature crucified, rivers are dammed, lakes dried up,

swamps drained, estuaries blocked, waterways silted;


I am Nature crucified, the landscape littered with wastes,

gases into the air form acid rain, and thin the ozone layer;


I am Nature crucified, flora and fauna losing their natural

gene pools by selective breeding and genetic engineering;


I am Nature crucified, the earth is in fever steadily rising,

ice caps and glaciers melting, raising the level of the sea;  


I am Nature crucified, privacy and rest becoming a luxury

in a runaway population living on fast lanes, and rat race.  


I am Nature crucified, inequitable distribution of wealth

the source of conflict, greed and poverty, unhappiness;


I am Nature crucified by the promise of heaven in afterlife,

the faithful restrained to regain Paradise while on earth.


I am Nature crucified by scholars of never ending debates,

on the goodness of the human race in fraternal praises;


I am Nature crucified by the many denominations of faith,

pitting God against one another in endless proselytizing;


I am Nature crucified by licenses of freedom in extremism,

human rights and democracy - tools of inaction and abuse;   


I am Nature crucified by mad scientists splitting the atom,

building cities, tearing the earth, probing ocean and space;


I am Nature crucified by capitalism, consumerism its tool

to stir economy worldwide, wastefulness it consequence;


I am Nature crucified by the unending pursuit of progress,

the goal and measure of superiority, nation against nation;


I am Nature crucified by man’s folly to become immortal:

cryonics, cloning, robotics - triumvirates for singularity.


I am Nature crucified, hungry, thirsty, imprisoned, naked,

abandoned – wishing some souls to stop, look and listen. ~   

Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) 
Dr Abe V Rotor and Ms Melly C Tenorio 738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening 
class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]

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