What We Do To Mother Nature Poem by Francis Duggan

I cannot help but feeling that the arrogance of man
Is in some way responsible for the earthquake that cost thousands of human lives in Iran
The doings of Mother Nature many well might say
But for tampering with her the price is huge to pay.

For what I am about to say I may come under attack
But only recently heavy bombs were dropped in Iraq
And Iraq from Bam in Iran is not that far away
Where the survivors for the dead now grieve and pray.

For human kind another expensive lesson here
This is what happens when man with Nature interfere
On Mother Earth men dropp their poisonous bombs from the sky
And to such aggression she angrily reply.

In Bam 'tis said twenty thousand people or more have died
And two hundred thousand homeless and a whole city destroyed
And thousands injured in a huge catastrophe
In an earthquake that has caused death suffering and misery.

And though I may come under a verbal attack
For linking this to the recent bombings in Iraq
And how you see it is entirely up to you
But what we do to Mother Earth to our own selves we do.