A poem Dan wrote on Earthday. The Monkey hopes you enjoy!
Dig…
Our Purpose
The responsibilities of life
confuse the soul
to the extent that we no longer know who we are.
We do not recognize our own species as our family
let alone respect other species.
Unless a plant provides us beauty or food
we do not honor it’s coexistence with us in time.
There is no other purpose to being
except for our responsibility to our soul
and to the other souls of this beautiful but lonely world.
by Dan Derheimer
Copright 1997