To live with wild animals would delight and titillate the senses Like Romulus and Remus nutured by a mother wolf To roam with wolf brethren over a moon-swept landscape To mingle with migrating caribou on their long journey Or fish the mighty rivers with the nearsighted grizzy bear An uncomplicated world of the senses we have lost---- or never attained They do not gather material possessions or pray to invisible Gods They do not create weapons of destruction, or pollute the very air they breathe Yet, we are destroying their world with our earth-shattering machines For millennium before us they lived in harmony with Earth If we destroy them We destroy ourselves.........