The Times, they are A-Changing
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It was January 1964. I had just left school, still living at home and contemplating my future the first time I heard Bob Dylan singing The Times, They Are A-Changin’ on the family radiogram in the comfort of an armchair.
A violent storm was raging outside.
Maybe
it was the poet in me that started me thinking along much the same lines as I do
now, 50+ years later, that nature and humanity are at risk... not least from
each other?
THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGING
Sun
glaring down
with
the ferocity of a Greek god
at
humankind’s
insistence
upon pitting itself
against
nature
in
the name of progress,
any
capital gains notwithstanding,
climate
change but an incidental factor
in
a universal picture?
Forest
fires, freak floods,
forcing
whole families to take flight,
come
day or night,
since
nature has little respect
for
those in denial
of
meaning it harm by providing
greater elbow room
as and when the need, any justification
met with regeneration
Does
the natural world
not
deserve better that such Reserves
and
Zoos as humankind
feels
inclined to allow, if only to teach
its
past and present
to
students of world order, its future
looking as bleak
as
theirs, its own life forces whittled down
by
matters human?
A
worldwide pandemic,
regarded
by many as beyond coincidence,
but Earth Mother’s way
of
protesting at humanity’s inclination
to
see wildlife as sport,
green
spaces expendable wherever
developers
see potential
in
arguing for public as well as private gains,
so
“Everyone wins...”
Come
a 21st Century virus,
targeting
the human race as indiscriminately
as
it has seen fit
to
target birds, beasts, fishes and habitats
in
the name of self-preservation,
humanity
deserving the greater share
for
its sheer superiority
and
monopoly on matters cognitive-spiritual
engaging
with its soul?
Who’s
to say the natural world
is
incompatible with a universal spirituality
when
grief and loss
as
well as celebration are plain to see
in species other than human?
Who’s
to say, too,
that
were humanity fail to survive
its own demands and prejudices, there would be
no new Dawn of History?
Human
mind-body-spirit, at risk for being in denial
of
the natural world’s being part of its whole...
Labels: climate change, collective responsibility, global consciousness, history, human nature, human spirit, life forms, love, nature, personal space, positive thinking, self-awareness, society, spirituality
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