Friday, July 29, 2011

stop...

Stop – now.
Don’t take another step.
Stop this moment
Stop this second
Stop work and look closely
look out your window - or
look high into the remaining blue sky.

Stop playing music – this instant.
Take out the ear buds
take off your head phones
Stop listening to everything else
but the moment of now.

Stop typing – stop texting
Stop testifying.
Stop checking e-mail on the ipads
or your I-phone, or your cell phones
or your PCD or PED
or LED or your mobile rectangluar devices.
Look out your window
at the trees –
see the leaves blowing in the wind.
Smell the fresh air while you can.

Stop walking – stop dancing
look up and notice the birds historic
migration – seasonal – beyond reasonable.

Stop and notice the details.
Stop now.
Turn off the television sets
the flat screens, the entertainment news,
the changing weather forecasts,
the ABC, the NBC, the CBS, the HBO, the Showtimes
the HD Net, and every one of the 900 channels
of diversion - keeping you and me from seeing
the truth.

The sky is falling
The sky is falling
The sky is falling
Our earth is dying
Our earth is dying
Our earth is dying

Our glaciers are melting
faster than any time in history
and that should tell you – like the Inuit elders
“The earth is crying” they say,
“crying for help.”

The sky is falling.
Let's hope, it’s not too late.


J.E. Dorsey  - for GGD
Copyright © 2011. Doug Claybourne. All Rights Reserved.

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