Passend zum diesjährigen Earthday am 22.4.2023 hat Patti Smith ihr Gedicht “Supplication to Nature” in ihrem Buch “A Book of Days” veröffentlicht.
Das Gedicht gebe ich hier wieder, mit Bildern von einem aktuellen Wanderurlaub in Domodossola.
SUPPLICATION TO NATURE
If we be blind, if we turn away from Nature, garden of the soul, She will turn on us.
In place of songbird, the shrill cry of the locusts devouring the harvest, the terrible crackling of the blazing rainforest, the peatlands smoldering, the seas rising, cathedrals flooding, the Arctic shelf melting, the Siberian wood burning, the Barrier Reef bleached as the bones of forgotten saints.
If we be blind, failing in our supplication to Nature, species will die, the bee and the butterfly driven to extinction.
All of Nature nothing more than an empty husk, the unholy ghost of an abandoned hive.
(Patti Smith, A Book of Days)
