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
