I cannot help but feeling that the arrogance of man <br />Is in some way responsible for the earthquake that cost thousands of human lives in Iran <br />The doings of Mother Nature many well might say <br />But for tampering with her the price is huge to pay. <br /> <br />For what I am about to say I may come under attack <br />But only recently heavy bombs were dropped in Iraq <br />And Iraq from Bam in Iran is not that far away <br />Where the survivors for the dead now grieve and pray. <br /> <br />For human kind another expensive lesson here <br />This is what happens when man with Nature interfere <br />On Mother Earth men dropp their poisonous bombs from the sky <br />And to such aggression she angrily reply. <br /> <br />In Bam 'tis said twenty thousand people or more have died <br />And two hundred thousand homeless and a whole city destroyed <br />And thousands injured in a huge catastrophe <br />In an earthquake that has caused death suffering and misery. <br /> <br />And though I may come under a verbal attack <br />For linking this to the recent bombings in Iraq <br />And how you see it is entirely up to you <br />But what we do to Mother Earth to our own selves we do.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-we-do-to-mother-nature/
