The Illiterate Man
The Book of Nature
Man knows Not how to read it
The Book, however, is the Future
Nature’s handwritten Signature
Shapes every Tree
How to shape a Tree, Man does not Know
Yes, he does, however, Spell quite well
The Book of Garbage
The Illiterate Man bookmarks every Page
Of the Book of Garbage
Yet, how to re-create Man
Transform him in a Literate Man
Man knows Not how
Man knows Not the Meaning
Of the Book
Written by Nature before his eyes
Illiterate by Nature
Man persists in mutilating his kin and subsists
Injuring the Earth and Self
Persists in doing what he should Not
Man does not know the Natural Alphabet
Every Tree turned, and every Root burned
Every flower trashed is a mute Voice
Is a Letter of Nature addressed to Man
Condemning Man
Yet the Illiterate Man never grew
To read this Letter, never grew
To become wiser, never knew
To read the Letters of Nature
That spell the Words of his Future
And so, Man is Lost fumbling through the Pages
Of the Book of Nature
He doesn’t find his Future
Because the Book of Nature is missing a Page
A missing Page, torn apart with Rage
Which is Man, the Illiterate Man, the missing Page.
