ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

ARROGANCE
Maureen Clifford © The Scribbly Bark Poet


For those who listen the world has music,
for those who listen the world has song.
For those who listen the world will tell you
whenever its hurting and what is wrong.
For those who listen the Mother calls you,
she shares her bounty, she shares her joy
just open your eyes and see her glory,
embrace her substance with your employ.
For those who care the whole world around you is
a mere speck in the oceans of space,
there are other planets and other systems
far, far away and not in our face.
Should we presume that they have no people,
should we presume we’re the only ones
that inhabit a planet or is that just arrogance.
Long before our lifetime - life had begun.