How To Destroy What We Have
When we swat or chop
We are the poorer.
From splendour to flop
We destroy the aurora.
Best to stand and wonder
At the beauty of the beast
Rather than just plunder –
To reduce it to its least.
Opher – 11.2.2017
How To Destroy What We Have
All life is connected in one great mesh. When any organism perishes we are all the less.
Destruction is easy.
Building is hard.
Every time we kill a fly or hoe a weed we are stealing someone’s meal.
Every tree we trim or ditch we dredge robs a multitude of creatures of their habitats.
By removing the things we do not like we distort the web and destroy the things we love as well.
If we wish to have birds singing, frogs croaking, butterflies dancing and ladybirds flying home then we must have the weeds and flies too.