[Critique Group 1] February 2022 submission

[Deanna Noriega]

176 words:

 

My Brothers and Sisters Are Dying

By DeAnna Quietwater Noriega

 

Today I cried for the manatee and the polar bear.

My heart is broken

that we have forgotten

we are all children of Mother Earth.

 

We once understood this as the truth of all living things.

We shared clean water,

we breathed the sweet air.

We were all part of the dance of life.

 

Then human beings became proud of how clever we were; 

Inventing machines

That polluted air,

Ignoring the damage of our greed.

 

We covered the sweet earth with cities and vast factories.

Such clever monkeys,

Polluting water

Thinking that there would always be more.

 

We kept building and spreading across the face of the earth.

Cutting down forests

Ignoring the deaths

of other life forms that were not us.

 

We didn't believe that we would ever have to pay bac

for our waste and greed,

for our disregard,

for demanding more than our fair share.

 

If we don't use our cleverness to undo the damage,

our foolishness caused,

we'll die together.

our children and the blameless manatee.

 

 

DeAnna Quietwater Noriega

Cell: 573-544-3511

Email:  <mailto:dqnoriega at gmail.com> dqnoriega at gmail.com

Author of Fifty Years of Walking with Friends

https://www.dldbooks.com/dqnoriega/

 

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