Our Only Child

We've shown contempt for our Mother Earth… We throw garbage on her beach. Into her air and land and sea our contaminants and pollutants leach. Yesterday I watched as a beautiful old tree was pushed over to make room for a house… and then another tree… and another… and I had to stop and ask myself… Is this any way to treat our mother? Looking at all the times she's been abused disrespected and defiled… I wonder… if we should stop thinking of her as our mother… and think of her as our only child.