Magic’s Gone
When I was a child the world was full of magic. I’d run in the flower full meadows all full of grasshoppers, beetles, bees and butterflies. The whole air trilled and whiffed with their sound and scent. I fished in the ponds and streams for sticklebacks, frogs, newts and toads. There were lizards, slowworms and snakes, voles, mice and hedgehogs.
It was a world that was alive with magic.
I read stories of the impenetrable jungles where the gorillas, orang u tangs and elephants roamed. The seas were full of fish. The bears, tigers and lions meandered the wilderness and the wildebeest herds were measured in millions.
That was magic.
Now the logging companies have built in their roads, the hunters have followed them in and the impenetrable has become accessible.
Now the population of the world has more than doubled and they are gobbling up land, wild-life and resources. The jungles are burnt down and cleared; the bushmeat slaughtered.
Now the ponds are filled in and the streams culverted. The meadow flowers no longer scent the air. The insects no longer buzz. The herbicides and pesticides have done their job. The streams are muddy ditches devoid of stickleback, frog and newt.
The magic is gone.
As the last vestiges of chimpanzee, gorilla, tiger, rhino and elephant now hang on the mining and logging companies move relentlessly forward. The population continues to explode. We’re selling the future for a greedy present.
How can we bring the magic back?
Are we going to all it to die?
Magic’s Gone
Salamander,
Smooth snake tail,
Tiger tooth –
Now as rare as the Holy Grail.
Rhino horn,
Gorilla’s nail,
Not enough left
To even make one spell.
All the magic’s gone
Out of the world.
Sold down the drain
For a crock of gold.
Hardwood tree,
Chimpanzee too,
Mighty lion
From Timbuktu,
Whale and bear
Melted down for glue.
Before it’s all gone
What are we going to do?
All the magic’s gone
Out of the world.
Sold down the drain
For a crock of gold.
Opher 13.12.2015
I don’t believe that magic world that was there as a child will ever come back, maybe some of us in our own little way can create it for a while before others on our death will destroy it. Too much greed in the World, the population too high, more and more land being destroyed those beloved Trees we should all be preserving are being pulled down what the fuck have we all done to this World of ours. We want more and more as a result where do all the creatures go, women demand furs, designer handbag and shoes made of animals skins , the bitches can do without them, the skins belong on the animals. WE MUST STOP NOW destroying what we have left but all this crap in a fortnight from Paris they don’t care they had a great time. THE WORLD NEEDS TO LISTEN.
Nature has a way of recovering. It is resilient as long as we leave some of the creatures alive.
The boys have just come home from shopping and have a bear telling “The night before Christmas”, ten minutes later he is still going. The Christmas Tree has Connie Francis singing “Rocking around the Christmas Tree” now how can I be sad!
Sounds great.
We’re off for a meal with friends in a few mins. Have a great evening – full of Christmas spirit! Enjoy!!
You too