Gaia

Human...Why do we link this word to kindness? If all we have done is shown callousness to our Earth, we have mauled her with our sharp teeth, so why do you put down an animal when it does the same to you? Shouldn’t we receive the same treatment? The same punishment? Because our actions have left deeper wounds, irremediable consequences. We have stained the air she breathes.
Yet...We still have the audacity to ask her for leniency when she unleashes her anger at us. She has every right to protest when her guests are breaking her most precious belongings. Today she’ll be taking everything she has shared with us, packing her bags and leaving traces of calamities as souvenirs.
“Once you need something from me when I’m gone, remember how hostile you were to your own host” she writes in her very final note.
She’s leaving her own home little by little, taking the innocent creatures she expected us to nurture and take care of. She knows we haven’t been capable of anything else but destruction
We have put our needs before her when she was generous enough to open her doors to us, she gave us shelter and we...We haven’t given her the same amount of generosity back.
Now she’s giving us the same treatment and only we have the power to ease her affliction.
Stop thinking about yourself, there is nothing kind about the word “human” anymore. When Earth is dying the only synonym for the word ‘Human’ is narcissism. Your self absorption and technology betrayed her, she’s burning and drowning at the same time, forgetting to breathe to save her life.
Powerful men in suit and ties take everything away from us, believing their luxuries have more value than the species of animals we are losing. Your greed and arrogance made you think you could be more intelligent than her.
But she is divine,
mesmerising in a way that you could never be.
Take off your costume vicious human, learn about the beauty of mother nature and respect her. Do you really you are worthy of her heritage? You have forgotten about the things that are of importance so you could never be. She has given you the tools to build the house you are in, her veins have given you the money you carry in your hands. You feed off her blood to survive and now it seems to be running out...
So what will you do once everything is gone?
Move onto the next victim?
Sad, maybe another Earth will lie to you enough to make you believe you are capable of being kind.
I want to tell her that that some of us remain loyal to her, remind her she has shown fortitude and has endured decades of mistreatment.
I wish I could tell her everything will go back to how things were before humans planted seeds of venom, killing her slowly.
But as long as there are crowds of people who still ignore that our planet is falling down a spiral of agony, as long as there are people who are still indulging in self absorption...
Then nothing will be okay
And I don’t have enough courage to lie to her, because I’m a human. And no, that does not mean I’m kind...It means I’m a coward.