to nature with love

While reading this poem, I couldn't help but allude the character being written about to Mother Nature. When I think of Mother Nature, I think of her in a sensual, physical way. After all she is the abiotic force which nurtures the biotic community of the world. She is the one who is usually ignored and unthought of. Quoting the author in the early stanzas of the poem, "no cold exemption from her pain" All the pollution, toxification and habitat alteration which man's actions cause have to be absorbed and corrected by Mother Nature. "She knows the price of every sigh, the value of a tear".

While attemping to mitigate the anthropocentric damage caused by humans, I visualize Mother Nature "sighing"when she knows the damage is beyond her control. Not sighing for herself, but sighing for the demise that mankind will have to encounter due to her inability to recuperate from wrongs done to her. She probably also sighs as she knows that her human kin, or human dependents will deem her reprehensible for the human inflicted demise. In occurences of epidemics, natural disasters, drought and famine, Mother Nature is oft blamed and cursed for the downfall of man. Cursed for the downfall of man, when she is just doing what she has done for eons to preserve the balance of nature and the Earth's holistic ecosystem.

"She knows the value of a tear" as they fall onto the earth which she comprises. She knows the pain man feels when encountered with the consequences of environmetal destruction. Mother Nature always attempts "to heal the wounded heart". However, eventhough everyone may not come to terms with this, she, too has limits. She too has a carrying capacity that needs to be respected by the same human kin which she sustains every day.

We must respect the vary mother who has given us life, and blessed us with "friendship, sympathy and love, and every finer thought" as without breath, such dispositions could not be realized.