GREED

Gone - are the days when we could breathe the air without consequence, drink the water without processing it first, enjoy the plentiful bounty our pristine oceans offered up before we poisoned them, discover the joy in every creature that makes up this planet before we destroyed them all! Why would future generations want to remember us?

Repercussions – they are what our children will be forced to reckon with! Everything we’ve ever touched has either been contaminated or destroyed, and we did it without conscience in our quest for riches. We cannot live forever, and we cannot take it with us, so was it worth it?

Evil – lives in the heart of every human being! But it was always our choice to let it rise to the surface and consume us. We were the ones who brutally beat our precious Mother Earth into submission! But what did we really accomplish?

Each – and every one of us are responsible for what we will NOT leave behind for future generations! We will not leave them clean air, drinkable water, sustainable food resources, or a planet that will survive! Our legacy will be a dying planet that will one day succumb to our horrible abuse! How’s that for a legacy?

Does – anyone really care? Are we so blinded by greed and power that nothing else in the universe matters? Do we really believe we’re that important? We are not the ones who will pay the ultimate price for our destructive ways. Why don’t we ask the children what they’d like us to leave behind for them? Maybe in their innocence we will find the only answers that make sense!

© Annabel Sheila