The Abraham Principle

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CLIMATE CHANGE

The Abraham Principle

 

For he so loved God

That he offered his only son

 

Who among us would not offer

Our own life for the life of a child?

Who would not sacrifice oneself

To save a mother?

 

God and nature make no such offers

God and nature have only one bargain

And that is prescribed by science:

If / Then …

 

If you abuse your stay on earth

If you exploit the planets resources

If you cut down mountains

If you clear cut forests

If you poison rivers

If you pump toxic fumes

Into a finite atmosphere

For decades upon ages without end

If you pretend there is no problem

That God and nature will self-correct

That it is the will of God

That all must suffer to fulfill a prophecy

That it is beyond the will of man

Then you will face certain consequences

 

Then fires will rage in the west

Erasing whole towns from existence

Then storms will strike with deadly force

Marking the land with devastation

Then floods will bury islands

And render towering cities extinct

Then raging winds of fire will

Raze the land from sea to sea

Then mothers will cry for children lost

Then Abraham will offer his only son

Too late the damage done

Too late the damage done