My life and my pain

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Humans. I wish humans never evolved to live on my skin. They tear up my skin, pull and kill my hairs and proceed to replace it all with concrete and metal thinking about their own survival and not mine or the friends of mine that I love so dearly. You might think, "well if they live on you then just kill them off." However this isn't possible for me to do, I'm stuck in a paralysed state, stuck spinning and circling the leader of this system. Most are jealous of my pretty greens and blues but don't seem to notice the pain I am in. I cry. Get angry and many more emotions which affect my looks however it's never good enough to wipe them away, I don't want to hurt my friends that they hunt, kill and farm. Some of my friends have already been hit with consequences, some died out a long time ago and most are still dying out but it's not only my fault, it's the stupid human's fault for tearing down my forests, for creating light where it's not needed. Life was perfect without humankind, yes maybe my friends did kill one another but that was fine because none of them died out, they only started dying out when humans interfered and started hunting them too, and the more they hunted the more they expanded their species and the more their species expanded the more they hunted. Why couldn't they have stayed those berry picking peaceful creatures, it's as if they became corrupted. They were once a single clan and now today they are many with different leaders, different plans and different intentions. Some with intent to kill, some intend to make peace, others intend to make land theirs, to rule over the rest of their kind, however at the end of the day it's always the same, they are full of greed, most of the time they are ungrateful creatures. They take dogs and cats, reptiles and all other types of creatures that live upon me and treat most with love and care, but only as long as they are living with them, some aren't so lucky and get abused, traded, forced to fight, even brought up to fight. While you may think it would be better to live alongside these humans, for most it is not, most breeds of dogs and cats love it and get treated like gods or at least like equals, but what about the other "pets" as they call them that get locked up, imprisoned in cages of glass or metal. Yes some humans are very nice to my friends and for that I thank them, but that doesn't change the fact that they kill and devour other friends of mine nor does it change the fact that they hurt and attack my body creating wounds all over me. The saddest part about humanity is how they teach their young on what's wrong or right while including the colour of their skin with what's wrong and right when none of them should be discriminated against nor should they have stereotypes about each other. I wish I was like the others in my system, they don't really have any problems living with on them, they don't have to watch their friends be murdered and eaten, but still they are affected by these pests who live upon my surface. They launch chunks of metal full of fuels and more chunks of metal inside and land them upon my brothers and sisters, my little sister who always follows me has already been touched by humankind and that worries me from what they have done to me they may also do to her.

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