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awakening
October 2009 
Birthday - Earthday
Posted on Jan 9th, 2008
by 
Daroy
Daroy
Tomorrow's my birthday, but i find no cause for celebration. I wish i could melt into the trees, evaporate and become a cloud, or simply switch off my conscious self and intermingle forever with the blades of grass under my feet.
I'm so tired of living among the blind and deaf, those who don't care, don't understand, don't receive the messages of the world, those who constantly sting and hurt me with their derision and lack of respect towards my beloved Earth and its fragile creatures, those who consume and waste and destroy and have no regard for the sacred and precious. Like aggressive beasts they surround me everywhere, every day, even at home, and keep whipping my soul with their dirty words and selfish deeds. I can't bear anymore how so-called civilized, grown-up people worship their monstrous cars and futile electronic toys, their cheap foods and poisonous drugs with which they pollute the very things they depend upon-- air, water, and soil. Each minute i can feel the cries of pain of a myriad creatures, big and small, tortured by the caprices of men and women who don't know, who don't care about where things come from when they want them, nor where they go when they pass from their greedy hands. Despite the alarming news about dying forests, disappearing species, thinning farmland, they continue in their destructive ways and even make fun of those who advocate gentleness and awareness. Decadence raises its ugly head above my country; its stench makes me so sick that i wish i could fall asleep and never wake up again. I know that i am truly a son of the Earth, that my true brethren are the natives of America and the aborigines of Australia, and that i'm totally out of place in this wealthy country where nothing grows in the minds but money and 'fun'.
I'm terribly sad. I wish i could melt into the trees, evaporate and become a cloud, or simply switch off my conscious self and intermingle forever with the blades of grass under my feet.
(picture: "No Door" by Daroy Lin)
I'm so tired of living among the blind and deaf, those who don't care, don't understand, don't receive the messages of the world, those who constantly sting and hurt me with their derision and lack of respect towards my beloved Earth and its fragile creatures, those who consume and waste and destroy and have no regard for the sacred and precious. Like aggressive beasts they surround me everywhere, every day, even at home, and keep whipping my soul with their dirty words and selfish deeds. I can't bear anymore how so-called civilized, grown-up people worship their monstrous cars and futile electronic toys, their cheap foods and poisonous drugs with which they pollute the very things they depend upon-- air, water, and soil. Each minute i can feel the cries of pain of a myriad creatures, big and small, tortured by the caprices of men and women who don't know, who don't care about where things come from when they want them, nor where they go when they pass from their greedy hands. Despite the alarming news about dying forests, disappearing species, thinning farmland, they continue in their destructive ways and even make fun of those who advocate gentleness and awareness. Decadence raises its ugly head above my country; its stench makes me so sick that i wish i could fall asleep and never wake up again. I know that i am truly a son of the Earth, that my true brethren are the natives of America and the aborigines of Australia, and that i'm totally out of place in this wealthy country where nothing grows in the minds but money and 'fun'.
I'm terribly sad. I wish i could melt into the trees, evaporate and become a cloud, or simply switch off my conscious self and intermingle forever with the blades of grass under my feet.
(picture: "No Door" by Daroy Lin)
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