Begging Forgiveness (May 5, 2016)

Mother Earth

Please forgive us

For our raping

And pillaging

Of Your gifts

To us.

Knowing

We must face

Our punishment

For these crimes.

But

I ask You.

Please spare

Brother Wolf

Sister Caribou

And the other siblings

From this.

Whose

Only crime

Is their existence.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: After an unusual mild and dry winter, for western Canada, the forest fire season has started earlier, this year. The most graphic and destructive one, is the fire that's ravaging Fort McMurray, Alberta, forcing the evacuation of 84 000+ people, from this oil exploration city. The material wealth can be replaced, by various financial means, but the wild life, like the wolf and the caribou, who are struggling, with the intrusive oil sand exploration, may never return. For extinction, is forever.


I has asked, Sherry Blue Sky, if she would do, a collaboration, with the above poem, but she said, "...it would dilute its beauty and its power....", by doing this. For which, I am flattered and truly humbled, by her words. Thank you, Sherry.