Mother Earth and her pain...

[wyn]

The rain is falling again...

I feel as if I've up and moved to Ireland, the way the weather has been of late. Not that I mind in some ways as the country has always been close to my heart for several reasons, despite the fact that I've yet to set foot on the land, but... yeah.

Sometimes the rain can feel so cleansing. So beautifully peaceful and clean and pure.

This, however, is not one of those times.

I feel Mother Earth weeping. She is in so much pain right now, yet all we do is worsen it. She shudders in her labor, barely able to breath; confined by our chains and ropes we've built upon her- cities and bridges, cars and trams, concrete and pavement. We electrocute her with our power lines and smother her with tar. We cut down her forest children and sicken her waters with pollution and trash.

We are the ultimate parasites.

And yet... she keeps us. Just as she has kept us for thousands of years. Even now as she quakes and shudders in pain beyond our imagining, she hopes for another way. Even now she holds back from unleashing a torrent of destruction upon her lands because she doesn't want any more pain.

And yet... we continue to unleash it upon her.

And I cry along with her in her sorrow. I feel a glimpse of the pain that she holds. I listen to the staggered breaths that she continues to take.

And I feel totally, utterly and completely helpless...

Comments

[drachenfang.livejournal.com]

Well don't forget, the planet is really in fine shape. It's been changing in waves for far longer than the human race has been around. There have been times where natural phenomenon have killed off far more life than humans ever have. Periods of anoxia in the atmosphere and large meteor impacts were much worse than us in terms of the loss of species.
The empathic ick of it all is watching what humansare doing to themselves with all of our various nonsense. Even if everything dies out but for a few bacteria the planet would be back up and running again in a few billion years. Earth's in great shape.
She's not going anywhere. We'll go long before she does.

[shadows-wolf06.livejournal.com]

Is she?

She may have a core of strength within her, but with every year that passes, we sap even more of it from her. While it's true that she could simply off the human race by shaking herself to the core and thereby creating enough natural disasters to wipe us out, she has yet to do so.

The poles don't shift simply because. They shift because Change is needed to regain a tenuous balance. Over the past few years, the airports have had to re-align their runways to line up with North as the poles have been slightly shifting. Yet instead of realizing that something is going on, we simply brush it off as No Big Deal.

What you look upon as Natural Disasters, I see as Mother Earth trying to alleviate some of her pain. I suppose that's one of the differences in your viewpoint from my own.

As to the empathic side... it sucks, yeah. Watching while the idiotic masses continue to bicker amongst themselves over the most juvenile of issues, well... it makes it hard to keep Hope in the chance to ever evolve as a race.