Here I Am On Earth

How, in the earth, did that happen?

Seven billion humans...I happen to

be one of them. Whatever I am, I 

don't last that long ....a twinkle

in the eye of time. And the humans

who supposedly run the place are

running it into the ground. So much

for the idea of a higher life form.

It's beautiful as I look out my window...

the delicious green, bird song naturally

enhancing the environment, the sun,

the clouds...all organic...all intrinsically

evolved. No wonder the ancient ones

tried to live in harmony....it wasn't broke

and they saw no reason to fix it. 

I just read that it will take, maybe,

twenty years for radiation from 

Japan to contaminate the planet.

That's if nothing else happens.

So. it's beautiful, now, as Basho wrote,

floating on the waves of the lake.