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Meditation 02 (Other) by Blue Magpie
The human race has wandered now
one million years upon the earth,
of these I think you will allow
at least some thousands were of worth.
Though lately we have had to try
and do things in a different way
while never stopping to ask why
our profits always fade away.
In this five hundred we have learned
to kill off everything that lives;
and with this accolade we've earned
we think we use what nature gives
most cleverly, with smart intent,
and so suppose, blinded by proof,
that we are somehow eminent
and have no thought for Nature's truth.
The shark now swims the way he swam
when first his species learned to swim
and all of times strong calloused hands
have done their best to polish him.
Three hundred million years he's lived
small changed and little changing
while through the ocean's briny realms
his many forms were ranging.
The salty water's master killer
he needs no fear of fish nor man
but driven by his sweeping tiller
hunts happy where e'er he can.
But though he's ruled for eons long
still he lives in harmony
with all the creatures weak and strong
that live beneath the sea.
This fact perhaps might make us think
before we claim we've won
that we have been here but a blink,
and the race is not yet done.
When we've as long our candle burned
then maybe we can claim
that Human kind also has learned
to win at Nature's game.
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