Inner tears erupt
as each tree is felled
in the Amazon Rain Forest.
Natural beauty, silence, solitude,
Wildlife, rare birds and plants --
all priceless and irreplacable
but produce no bottom line.
When the rapers of
this ecological wonder succeed,
beauty and spiritual serenity
will vanish into a wasteland.
As the birds flee
I will mourn with thee,
"Where have all the leaves gone?"
Evelyn Glass