IF WE CAN'T SEE THE TREES

Social Equality

Social Justice

Sustainable Existence

If we can't SEE trees,

if we don't talk to the birds and the bees,

if we can't FEEL NATURE

we are NOT ALIVE

I may breathe

I may speak

I may act

but if I have no spirit

I am NOT ALIVE

ACCESS to NATURE is a fundamental right

a fundamental of our very EXISTENCE

yet we are denied it everyday

in almost every way

Cars violently dissect our world

Their speed and noise disturb our being

Few other beings survive their impact

Buildings obstruct our horizons

Night lights obliterate the stars

even our GALAXY is invisibilised by our pollution

The rivers are bled of all their life

as we piss away oceans

creating seas of diluted shit

Millions of years of stored solar energy

exploded in the blink of a century

creating a slow inferno of GAIA retribution

WAR the primary mechanism of waste and destruction

CAPITALISM the 'culture' of this abuse

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

POSSIBLE EVERY DAY

LOVE NATURE

LOVE YOURSELF

LOVE OTHER

LOVE ALL

that's what cleanses me of the insanity, the bile, the greed and the stupidity

alas many choose the blue pill

to sleepwalk through the escalating, trench warfare of capitalist destruction

instead I weed trees, examine insects, try to learn from the bees

I am very lucky in having that most precious of New World Order commodities

I have TIME. Time for myself, for nature, for now

Having largely escaped the work/debt PRISON

I am occasionally free

I wish you were too

I hope you are

Join me if you can

there's another tree to care for

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