Grieving for the Lost

  The Negative Way

“By the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we remembered Zion

     and we hung our harps on the willows.”                      – Psalm 137

        The new man of the techno-industrial complex has brought humanity  

        as well as every other creature on planet earth to a point of no return.

        They have managed to pollute, within this one moment of evolutionary

        time, the pristine environment that all life depends on to survive.  

        We weep remembering the breathable air, the pure waters, and the

        sacred soil of our legendary past, even as we continue to isolate ourselves

        further away from the life-sustaining principles of the natural order, and

        mindlessly watch with indifference as death follows in our footsteps.  

        We hang our harps on the willows of our grief and remember the words

        of a prophet, “I put before you life and death – choose life.”  But we

        have perversely chosen death, while all around us at this tragic moment

        mother nature grieves for her beautiful life forms that are no more.