God, what have we done?

"God, what have we done?"
By Bob Perks

I don't know why I waited. 

 

My heart was heavy when I saw the

bird just standing there drenched in oil.

I don't know what, if any, emotions a

bird can feel, but it looked humiliated

and confused.

 

My heart heard it say, "What did I do to
deserve this?"

 

I whispered, "I'm sorry!"

 

It was then that I asked God, "What
have we done?"

 

He gave us a perfect place to live and
we turned it into our play ground thinking
only of ourselves.

 

Move the wildlife, to hell with the
environment.  Our needs supersede
all others.

 

We need more oil to keep up with
the demand so pollution is "collateral
damage."  A phrase I heard once
spoken about innocent civilians
killed in the war.

 

We are screaming at BP, boycotting
their company for mistakes they made
when in the long run, in the reality of
it all, you and I are to blame.

 

We are the reason oil companies drill. 

We are the reason that, even in my own
backyard, gas companies are leasing
beautiful, natural land and farms, so that
they can pump chemicals into the ground
to release gas deposits.  They call this
"fracking."

 

Already water systems have been polluted,
and the earth changed in ways we will one
day regret.

 

"God, what have we done?"

 

He gave us perfection and we are stealing
away its wealth.

 

He gave us clean and we dirtied it.

 

He gave us beautiful skies and we polluted
them.

 

He gave us wildlife and we are killing them off
through over consumption and chemical mis-
management.

 

He called it creation, we call it evolution.

 

He called it natural and we call it "collateral
damage."

 

"In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth." Genesis 1

 

"Then God said, "Let us make man in our
image, in our likeness, and let them rule
over the fish of the sea and the birds of the
air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and
over all the creatures that move along the
ground." Genesis 1:26

 

"God, what have we done?"

 

 "I wish you enough!"

J 

Bob Perks
 

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"I Wish You enough!" 
ร'ยฉ 2001 Bob Perks

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear
much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."