Beloved Planet

Earth’s beauty radiates forth every day

-mountains, valleys, rivers, deserts, tundra, oceans-

awesome, majestic, mesmerizing

Each area has its own delicate ecosystem

-well adapted and complimentary-

where life happens and death takes all

Weather patterns complete these systems

-floods, fires, droughts, blizzards-

to cleanse, rejuvenate, restore

Man is but a visitor, an interloper

-weak in strength, inventive to cope-

dangerously oblivious in his obsession to control

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