Balance Restored

Wind and rain in anger

unleashes its fury and

rages against us,

 

and the waters rise,

flooding over swollen banks.

And the great fires burn,

 

laying waste to home and farm,

forest land and wild life,

Nature’s destruction

 

against human kind

for sins against the land and

water, air, nature’s being,

 

striking back, seeking

again balance, nature’s way

restored, restoring

 

life to a living

planet, sustained and growing:

punished, forgiven.

 

And the question asked,

how much more, how much longer

before it’s all gone,

and us, too, too late?