Snippets of Color

HUMANS

Us humans
We are strong
We are powerful
And we are capable
We can build things up
But also tear things down

Once it was thought
that all beautiful things
had to belong to someone
The beauty of sky
of clouds
of mountains and hills
the beauty of water
of dirt
of plants and animals
the beauty of life
the beauty of death
and the beauty of everything
that could be seen and felt
It was thought that all beautiful things
had to belong to something

Before humans came
the beautiful things
belonged to the Earth
and for a while
the humans understood that
so the beautiful things
were shared between the humans and the earth
there was peace
and there was life

But one moment in history
something was decided
humans thought that all of the beautiful things
belonged not to the earth
but to them
so all of the beautiful things
were taken by the humans
but how can humans share among each other
if they can't even share
with the Earth they live on?

Only the strongest can survive
this was the rule
set by the strongest
from the beginning
so the fight between humans began
to seek out the strongest
then only death came

In another moment in history
something was decided again
humans decided that not only
do all beautiful things
belong to humans
but humans
also belong
to humans
and thus the fight for humans began
but the strongest had already been crowned
the ones with the most power
conquered the ones with none
and death still plagued over the Earth

In the years that followed
the world stood quiet
because this was not
what the Earth wanted

Then another decision was made
one that created chaos
and somehow even more death
humans decided that it was wrong
for humans to belong to anybody
but the damage had already been done
the invisible brand had already been placed
there will always be some humans
who are given more power than others
and there will always be some humans
who are looked at as lower beings

The Earth has turned away
because it knows
there is no going back

Humans are slowly destroying themselves

Humans say that the future
will bring good to the world
that time will heal the wounds humans have created
this is what the humans hope
but some mistakes are never fixed
unless everyone works together
but the things about humans is
they don't work together
not since the day they decided
some humans are worth more than others
because some wounds never heal

And this is how it is today
we look at some humans
and see strength that they had in the beginning
but then we look at others
and see the destruction humans have created

The Earth is still here
silently hoping that one day we'll fix
what we have broken
or if we'll be the ones who cause our own demise