And the cycle continues.

Not much can be added to that, hey? Says it all basically. Back to the beginning, hm, that's a loaded statement: which beginning? There are so many.

YOU HAVE SHARED A VERY CANDID PIECE OF WORK...IT TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. AND I GUESS I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD BUT...WE WERE WARNED. NOTHING IS HAPPENING THAT HASN'T BEEN PROPHESIED...IN HIS WORD. BUT THERE IS ALSO SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S IN HIS WORD(PARAPHRASING)'...IF WE TURN FROM OUR WAYS, HUMBLE OURSELVES AND PRAY, GOD WILL HEAL OUR LAND...' SO THEN, WHERE TO? TO GOD. THANKS FOR SHARING, REGIS, REALLY ENJOYED THIS. LOVE, BLESSINGS & FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

As George Carlin said, "The earth isn't going anywhere, we are." I consider this write to be one of your best. One can tell this is something you feel strongly about. I try to do my part, and wish others would too. It's amazing how many people can't even take the time to recycle.

All true & as always well written...-e-

Indeed. As the Native Americans say, "We did not inherit the earth. We borrow it from our children." I say many generations have stolen it, a bit at a time yet ever faster until now we are on the brink of having stolen it all. So sad, and infuriating!

Rebecca

A beautifully crafted poem defining the problem of our time and the general feeling that there's nothing that can be done.

I remain optimistic. As older citizens we view things differently than the young, but there is nothing different about the science that is finding out all the maladies that you have so concisely and beautifully placed in this poem calling out for action.

We had our chance back at the turn-of-the-century when Al Gore was running for president as the United States and lost because of "hanging chads" and other election misdeeds even though he won the popular vote. What followed was a war to secure oil interests in Iraq and the surrounding area. We all know how that turned out.

The young peoples' protest is just the beginning of a tsunami of efforts, worldwide, to curtail population, recycle, abandon fossil fuels and chemical dependence on growing food. Whole changes in lifestyles necessitated by economic need, and a general, more empathetic view of everyone's plight, including all creatures that inhabit our earth and provide us with food and sustenance of the more spiritual kind.

The warning signs are dire. The action must be heroic and monumental. But the problems will be solved, one by one, as we wake from our sleep and start tackling them in earnest.

Ron

Sure the youth are angry! Look at the oceans! The air! The land! We are destroying them all in the name of greed. Greedy people like greedy ways. Kudos to that little girl in Sweden! She just may be a heroine! You have written a very meaningful poem, Regis!

Love ya!

Jane

Very visually written. In the name of progress man is on the verge of destroying nature and in turn himself. We can feel it in our day to day life as well.
I loved the way you wrote about being 'within oneself'. Profound!

Way too much attention is given to the climate change! I don't fear it one bit at all! If the world has to end tomorrow and we all die then trillion of years from now some of us may be reborn. I don't fear death one bit at all, especially when we all die at the same time.

Sandie

A gut-wrenching poem about an impending reality that could turn out to be a disaster. Well done, Regis.