Dr Abe V Rotor
Asian tiger, Zoobic, Subic Zambales
I laid down my fishing rod
a long time ago,
and I
haven't fired a shot since then, too,
for the wild has shrunk,
the places I used to go -
the
shores and forests - now I hardly know.
Where have all the
wildlife gone? I think I know;
I
hiked o'er the hill for a bundle of wood,
waded downstream to
complete my favored stew,
progress was unheard of, and life was good.
Is progress taming the wild and farming the seas,
building golf range on grasslands, houses on fields,
ranches, plantations of
crops and forest trees -
or
progress an accident of growing needs?
When Nature becomes spent
and overpowered,
pushed by growing affluence and number,
the wild leaves the world
in waste and disorder,
and a
lesson for us all to remember.~
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