What says the Tree to his friends the Rocks?
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When he lives and breathes they sit and mock?
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And he grows strong, for centuries long, but one he dies and begins to rot.
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a¢æ©«We will last intact this way! And you my friend, will soon decay!a¢æ?
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a¢æ©«But I can breathe -- am commensal; the shade, the fruits, the nests on bough.
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And if with this, my time finite, I'm glad to have spent it doing right.a¢æ?
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But Rocks prefer to simply sit.
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To gain none, lost none, just exist.
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But nary should an ocean rise, they'd become sand and disappear with the tides.
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When trees ignite a cyclical life, from plant to animal to Earth and back; whom, even when their roots are ploughed, have left exponential impact.
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And so, the greedy human kind, to conquer trees tall, mountains high, erects gigantic splinters of steel that shame forests, make mountains to kneel.
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And progress spreads like moss on a stone.
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Evolution dictates that men are prone to outdo those that came before.
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a¢æ©«You see? We'll last forever more!a¢æ?
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We improve what nature made.
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We'll challenge mountains, transplant lakes.
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There is no confirmed master plan.
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We do it just because we can.
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But foolish is the one who complacently thinks himself King because when Time erodes the past what remains are Nature's things.
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Quite Shakespearean duals, those between parent and offspring are!
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As Chronos devours his Son, Gaia to mankind so starts.
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Metal rusts, cement crumbles.
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To err is human, not divine.
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Prayers are so intently mumbled when proud man is forces to decline.
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Steel, concrete, technology may stand intact for centuries, but faces with wind or flood or quake, like toys will crumble, bend and break.
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I say with actions what you do with words.
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For we're the moss; the Earth -- the stone, so let us do as did the Tree.
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For silence will long be ignored, and action recognized quickly.
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We won't outlive our generation but our impact surely will.
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This -- the Rocks' humiliation -- when they witness we are still alive in what we've left for others, like Nature gives, so selflessly.
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So pay respect to out true Mother and take your rank amongst the Trees.
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Globus Hystericus
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The Agonist |