Restoring the Garden
Mankind’s not in a bubble, we are linked to Nature’s plan.
There are no separate provinces for animals and man.
All the riches of the world aren’t here for just our pleasure.
What we do to nature, it returns in equal measure.
This folly has gone far enough. The fools must be curbed.
The balances of nature have been cruelly disturbed.
Take back control from those who unwisely wield their power,
or nature will find other ways to make us cringe and cower.
She has put us in a prison in judgement for our sin,
providing us with jailers who control us from within
while those we have mishandled roam freely all around—
Fly and swim and crawl and run, scamper, leap and bound.
Only we are prisoners and will be ’til we’ve learned
not to take more than our share or more than we have earned.
This absurd behavior of the naughty little boys
who have seized our planet’s riches as their private cache of toys
will bring us all to ruin if we don’t curb their powers,
for they cannot see the truth of things up in their lofty towers.
For NaPoWriMo 2020, Day 6: Write a poem inspired by characters in Hieronymous Bosch’s painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights. “
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Wonderful. Too many people think we are all that matters and the rest of nature is just a resource for us to use.
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Including some who seem to have all the power right now. That needs to shift and if this pandemic doesn’t teach us that, then we are lost.
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Well said, Judy
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Your specialty..
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🙂
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True to today’s world. Very nicely put.
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So well said and so well done, a great thought to start a new week….
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I share your sentiment. Love this response to the painting!
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You have said it Judy. Time to think and reflect.
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They sadly will never see. Its up to us down here in the trenches. (K)
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“There are no separate provinces for animals and man.”
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Right so. Good to read you again. Will stay close.
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