I asked God for more

New Year's Reflection
Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Virgin Forest: only 3 percent is left in the Philippines. Requiem to a forest, Brooke's Point, Palawan

I asked God for food, clothing and shelter

      and He showered me

these necessities I can not live without -

      they are the Earth's bounty;

I settled down on fertile hills and valleys

      and multiplied freely.

I asked God for power to boost my strength,

      and He gave me energy;

I leveled the mountains, dammed the rivers

      and conquered the sea;

raped the forests, prairies, lakes and estuaries,

      a world I wanted to be.

I asked God if I can be god, too, all knowing

      with my technology;

broke the sacred code of life and of matter,

      changed the Great Story;

annihilated life unfit in my own design,

      and set my own destiny.

I asked God if He is but a creation of the mind,

      and rose from my knee;

probed space, rounding up the universe,

      aiming at immortality;

bolder than ever, searching for another home,

      and wanting to be free. ~