Hi Allan, Thanks, I really like this poem. What is RKM's list? Christy ----- Original Message ----- From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Poetry: The world we imagined on is disappearing.
> re: globalization from rkm's list: > > > > > Why We Are Here > > (London, 2003 and Seattle) > > -- Robert Arthur Lewis > > > > Because the world we imagined, the one > > we had always counted on > > is disappearing. > > > > Because the sun has become cancerous > > and the planet is getting hotter. > > > > Because children are starving in the shadows > > of yachts and economic summits. > > > > Because there are already too many planes in the sky. > > > > This is the manufactured world > > you have come here to codify and expedite. > > > > We have come to tell you > > there is something else we want to buy. > > > > What we want, money no longer recognises > > like the vitality of nature, the integrity of work. > > > > We don't want cheaper wood, we want living trees. > > > > We don't want engineered fruit, we want to see and smell the > > food growing in our own neighbourhoods. > > > > We are here because a voice inside us, > > a memory in our blood, tells us > > you are not just a trade body, you are the blind tip > > of a dark wave that has forgotten its source. > > > > We are here to defend and honour > > what is real, natural, human and basic > > against the rising tide of greed. > > > > We are here by the insistence of spirit > > and the authority of nature. > > > > If you doubt for one minute the power of truth > > or the primacy of nature > > try not breathing for that length of time. > > > > Now you know the pressure of our desire. > > We are not here to tinker with your laws. > > We are here to change you from the inside out. > > This is not a political protest. > > It is an uprising of the soul. ~ > > > >---------------- >
