Nature vs Man (An actually rather serious post)

I've been thinking about Titanic quite a lot recently. (The film and the actual real life sad situation) It makes me feel sad because of how many people died but also because I think one of these days all the Hollywood films about robots taking over the world, will come true. We are always building bigger, digging deeper, spending more and more, flying higher (I'm talking about you, Felix Baumgartner, jumping out of Outer Space, I ask you!) and just trying to be the biggest Mothers on the planet. But really, mountains will always dwarf ships, seas will always drown reservoirs, outer space will always swallow up rocket ships, and the sun will always melt robots down to molten iron.

 I wrote a poem about the Titanic and nature's response to the tragedy. It's a bit serious actually, for once. Check me out Ma, I'm growing up!

This is it:

Since Eden, man has tried his best

To put nature to the test

Our arrogance and vanity

Has blinkered us, so we can't see

That nature was, is and will be

The victor of eternity

 

And still we try and try again

To prove ourselves as Big Strong Men

"We've got the tools! We've got the braun!"

Industrialism has been born

 

Britain became Great overnight

and taught the world from its great heights

how to use Nature's resources

to replace hard work and horses

 

The Big Men said "Let's build a ship!

We'll build it huge and build it quick!"

But as we know, that fateful night

Nature won an epic fight

 

"Unsinkable" the mammoth boat

It's only given order; "Float",

Sank into the icy sea

And nature claimed it's steel trophy

 

"Let that be a lesson" Nature said

"Don't let your arrogance cloud your head

Never again try and take me on"

Maybe one day we'll learn our lesson.

 

 

The End.

Love Hannan :)