Insects and human beings

Some insects have consciousness and they can care for injured members of their family. They probably havs feelings. I’m not sure what it would mean to say, can they think?

One thing we do not share with them is that we have money.

That is the source of a lot of our problems such as income tax and other taxes which were only invented once we stopped wandering around the forest eating berries and killing wild pigs. 

Sometimes I wonder what it’s such a great idea to give up being nomads?

Certainly many people hate any kind of tax. They also seem to hate helping other human beings even the ones living near them.

I think it’s true that the poor give more money to charity proportionately than the wealthy do.

It seems like nuclear power that many human inventions and discoverers can be used for good or evil. Sadly at the moment things seem more negative than they have been.

Weaknesses expose some people to commit crimes or also commit sins in the old-fashioned terminology.

Where is the wisdom that we should have for so many hundreds of years of so-called civilization?

When the earth yields

I was running early morning through the fields

I felt the sound the earth makes when it yield

Long, heavy rain  sank softly through the soil

Where patient worms all eyeless quietly toil.

I saw the little birds awake at dawn

No longer could I feel the least forlorn

Even in a city there are  Joys

In that  silence underneath the noise.

Running home I found the pavements hard

Yet shared my breath with insects, snails and birds.

Yes insects breathe although they have no lungs.

As I run, I hear their tiny songs.

If we could breathe with our whole bodies too

What miracles a human being might do.