Trinda Anne Ting

Here. Then. Now

Here,

the light warms us

the leaves caress us softly

the trees shade us from the tormenting sun

Then,

we did not know

we passed by them with strides

unseeingly, unknowingly, ignorantly

Now,

time frozen

a moment suspended

as cold as the north wind blows

Epilogue:

From this photograph, the saying 'A picture tells a thousand words' is aptly portrayed. We walk along this empty street, almost forgetting that other than us, Nature has withstood the test of time longer than we have. Because of our ego and our opinion that we are 'better' than other organisms, we forget that without Nature and her resources, we would not even be surviving and flourishing. We seem to forget that we were once a part of Nature, and she provides the basic necessities by which we live, such as air to breathe and water to drink. The poem by Mark O'Conner, 'Earth', served as an inspiration to me while writing this poem about our ignorance to what Nature has provided for us. The Earth truly is 'the face on which [we] trample on' and 'the bones by which [we] live'.