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When the world hollows out
And the sun cooks up blame,
Don’t forget there were times
When we’d known
The con-game,
And yet chose –
To our shame –
Truth’s very core to
Maim.
We allowed
A shell-game
To carve the Earth
Up
In flames.
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Sad truth, indeed. Loving your rhyme here.
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Thank you! It IS sad that some choose to willfully ignore our being a fiduciary of this one planet we all must share. Maybe one day soon more will see the truth and work together to preserve, not destroy. Glad the rhyme worked!
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This is brilliant!
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Thank you, Beverly!
May it never become reality …
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Nothing short of a miracle or an extraterrestrial invasion that will pull us all together against a common threat will interrupt the trajectory we are on.
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Or, perhaps, an infusion of sanity. … Though in truth I don’t know if that is more likely than an alien invasion.
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Well said! Beautifully said.
Adele Ryan McDowell, Ph.D.
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Thank you once again, dear Adele! May humanity wake before there is little to wake up for.
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Time was, only cranks raised their voices in defence of the Earth. Now, praise the divines, the number of Earth Warriors increase apace. Let’s hope it proves enough to save us from being refugees in space.
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Amen to that. I am partial to oxygen and gravity and oceans and … well … Earth. I’d like to think many are …
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I’m sure we all are. It’s just some have lost sight of it.
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I’m hopefully the vast majority of us are … I suspect some may not be … but then again, it does make me doubt whether they are fully human … 😉
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Yea, I believe that’s been said before. Perhaps they really are the reported lizard-form extraterrestrials. 🙂
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You’ve seen Men in Black, right? 😉
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‘fraid not. Not my cup of tea
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Well, they’s gots lotta ‘species’ there … 😉
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I think it takes courage to understand…. and alas the world is ruled by cowards.
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Indeed it seems the world is rule by cowards, but it is INHABITED by many who are not … It is up to each and every one of us whether we cower or speak up …
And I believe humanity can speak up!
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You’ve brought a whole new meaning to “carve up” – well done! An important message.
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Thank you! May it remain a poem and not ever become fully a reality …
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This is incredibly potent!
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Thank you. May it never quite become reality …
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