Humans have barely left a skerrick of space for the wild world to flourish. And yet you get angry at the possums in your roof, the mice and the cockroaches in your cupboards. Our high rise buildings and concrete car parks, suffocate the land. Ever advancing, driven by our suicidal lust for absolute control, absolute convenience. Every footpath and manicured lawn, a monocultural wasteland, containing and constraining the life that wants burst forth.

The possum, the possum, the possum. 
The dear, sweet thing, tragic victim of modernity. 
I stopped to help it just as it was crushed. 
Speeding tires left it to rot in the middle of the road. 

All I could do was carry it gently to the nature strip,
Let it breathe its last into soft grass, 
Let its decay return its atoms to the cycles of life.

I returned to my car and wept and wailed my way home. 

You motherfuckers!! 

You would fine me for the wildness of my unruly garden but the Earth herself bears witness to your crime. Your malevolent gaze belies your ignorance, diminishing us all with your pettiness. 

From Earth’s view, the things I’ve been taught to care about matter so little and the things I’ve been taught to ignore matter so much. 

Aieeee, aieeee, aieeee, who will mourn the loss of so many we never even came to know?
When will we take the global minute of silence? 
When will we ring the bells and wear the clothes of mourning? 
When will the keeners come to loose my tears with their sacred wail? 
When will we allow the sacred magic of grief to bring us together and spur us to transform?

What would it take to let go? To allow the wild tide to regain its grip, to flow and grow and be. I groan against the bars of my own inhibitions waiting for my chance to be wild and thumb my nose at your ridiculous rules.

I’ve had enough of participating in the human death cult. I’ve had enough of human self obsession. I want to make space for the larger whole to speak, flourish and thrive. I want to dance with life, cocreating spaces of mutual flourishing.

^{Photo by John Gardner – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=120401211}