Once by Ice and Once by Fire
Once by ice and now by fire, erasing her mistakes,
Mother Earth must wonder how many times it takes
to finally get the world planned right, for once the lot is cast,
how can she watch sufficiently a planet that’s so vast?
Her hope is that but rarely she must resort to extinction
to control a species risen to such great distinction
that it uses up more resources than it can provide.
How many times must she restore a planet that has died?
She casts a might yawn and then breathes fire once again—
cancelling out excesses that they can’t see as sin.
Caught in a clinch as they resist all means of education,
perhaps the only answer is mankind’s eradication.
Prompt words today are extinct, rarely, clinch, vast and hope.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
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Add to this “Fire and Ice” and we have a pattern. Read people. Please read!
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Yes, I’m afraid that as a species, we don’t learn until we have no choice.
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Makes me think of Paul Revere — one if by fire, two if by ice! Eradication/extinction is such a finality — hopefully it can all be turned around before that occurs!
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Hopefully, but we’ll never do it if the powers that be refuse to acknowledge it.
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Agreed — hopefully a change soon!
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Food for thought…
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Frightening perspective!
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