Challenge

Challenge

The greatest challenge

every person faces in life

isn't about how many things

he can accumulate

or how much knowledge

he can amass.

It's about how well

he treats his fellow humans

and how well he treats

the animals we share

our planet with.

The great question

before all mankind

is how to co-exist

with the rest of nature

while seeing to the welfare

of all the members

of our own kind

without destroying

our biosphere.

We are a very young species

just learning how to walk

The challenge, my friends

Is how to travel

long and peacefully through

the halls of life

without wrecking mayhem

along the path

and tripping

over our own two feet

all the time.

The idea that many of us

must suffer through life

so that a few don't

is a fools answer

to the challenge.

Dewey Dirks