The warmth of the sun on the cold mountain snow, <br />A conflict created through which new life will grow, <br />This is the way of this place we call earth, <br />Seasonal affects to give the world worth. <br />Through time eternal the balance has grown, <br />The cycle of nature is all we have known. <br /> <br />Now the vanity of man claims we can do better, <br />Cut down the forests, make the desert wetter. <br />That life giving balance that had worked for so long, <br />The arrogance of man will make it all wrong. <br />We threw off the balance that existed in nature, <br />By denying the knowledge we are earth’s creature.<br /><br />Terry Wiens<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-conflict-of-nature/
