Poetry – There’s room enough – a poem for environmental sanity

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Rehabilitated young orangutan Perry van Duijnhoven

There’s room enough

There should be room enough for every type of life to live. There should be more than enough space for all of life’s profusion.

The planet is not huge but it is large enough. It used to be sufficient.

It no longer fits the bill.

It is a rock flying through space. It is alone and self-contained. It has sun, water and atmosphere. There is warmth and light enough for life.

This is our Ark.

We are all on the same boat. There is enough to go around.

Except that one species wants it all.

 

There’s room enough

 

There’s room enough

On this Ark,

As long as the landlord

Does not clog up the place

With progeny.

 

There’s room enough

For all of life,

Unless the tenant

Fills the rooms

With loot.

 

There’s room enough

For all to breathe

And blossom,

Unless the director

Feels there’s

Profit to be made.

 

Opher 14.4.2016

5 thoughts on “Poetry – There’s room enough – a poem for environmental sanity”

  2. Majority of people no longer care for the future just what’s happening now and what they can have. People too concerned about these stupid so called celebrities and tv programmes and me, me ,me. We should care about the Trees being cut down, wildlife being hunted out and destroyed, the Sea becoming a dumping ground we could fill a page with the damage being done. What concerns those out there, well how many more ridiculous cheap looking tattoos they can cover their bodies with, how much plastic surgery they can have. We had the best of it, can never get that back.

    1. I agree – far too much greed and shallow celebrity garbage out there. It’s about time people woke up.

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