Because I am human

Before the bible was written,

Before humanity was conceived,

Before forbidden fruit gardens

Tempting Adam and Eve,

Before Renaissance paintings,

Before the birth of man,

There was a place of nature,

A vast luscious land.

It breathed in sapphire skies,

It exhaled emerald grass,

As is the case with all beauty,

In time it would not last.

As we grew with the mountains,

And became wiser to the seas,

Boasting of our compassion,

Yet raping the Earth with ease,

We capitalized on suffering,

And in fear of the unknown

We singlehandedly tore apart

The land we had called home.

Because I am human,

Does not give me the right,

To poison a whole ecosystem,

To take a single life.

Because I am human,

I must accept the blame,

For when there is nothing left,

all we know is that

We all bleed the same.