Poem: Five Minutes

Just a short piece of writing I made… Hope you like it ^_^

Humans…
We eat, we live, we breathe on this planet.
We pay for goods, we pay for foods, we even pay for drinking water now.
We think we already pay for everything, but we pay to another human.
And pay almost no attention to this planet, who provides us with all
those goods, foods, and water. Humans…
When disaster comes, we left the sadness and tears only for the victims.
When disaster comes, some said it’s a curse, some said it’s destiny.
When disaster comes, some blamed the nature, why this could happened?
And is there anyone thinking that this might be a warning for ourselves
to do some self introspection? Humans…
We destroy this planet, pollute it, hurt it, and complain about it.
We cut the forests uncontrolled, we put chemicals into our water.
We use everything we could find to fulfill our greed.
And if this planet decide to stop giving all of those things to us one
day, what will happen?

Humans…
We kill each other in our daily battle of life.
We have been so busy so that we don’t have time anymore to think about
what we have done.
We have received many things for free from this land and we claimed them “ours”
And we seemed to be proud of that…

Friends…
We are not living alone in this planet called Earth.
We are not the absolute ruler of this place.
We share this land and water with other living beings, and with the
planet herself.
And where are we when other living beings are crying for help?

Friends…
Helping is not always in the form of money.
Being care doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t use anything provided by
this beautiful planet.
Just 5 minutes a day to think what we have done today…
And making wishes for the happiness of our place, our planet.

Pray, whatever your belief is…
Do, whatever your skills are…

Every big changes in history started from single individual.
Every little effort can make a difference.

Robert Setiadi
May all living beings in all directions live happily…

Melbourne, March 31, 2005