A Page In A Book
**We are one page in the book of life **
**Every character has shared our strife. **
**We are so smart, some will say **
**Only clever creatures live this way,**
**With barren lands of tired soil **
**Where fires burn and oceans boil. **
**We think our words and language rare, **
**How unique to mark paper with care; **
**As Beetles burrow and carve up trees **
**Moths make lines within the leaves. **
**Bird song cuts and weaves through air **
**Just another signal that they are there. **
**We look around and see our tools,**
**These are not the markings of fools! **
**Screens and cars, hammers and sword**
**Yet Webs and silk and dams ignored.**
**We made a myth to mock a magpie **
**Does anyone even remember why?**
**They steal all things that glow or shine **
**But it’s not the magpie that digs a mine. **
**In your home, your nest, your things **
**How much is shiny? What happiness it brings. **
**The dinosaurs page ends with comet,**
**Ours will talk of greed and profit. **
**We are only one page in the book of life,**
**How many characters are we causing strife? **