mother nature vs the devil [part one]

This scene is set in the imagined courtroom of the Gods; the highest court of universal justice which has never before been invoked. This is an unprecedented case. Both parties involved are extremely passionate.

We open with the prosecution, who is Mother Nature. She is weary and is speaking strongly but at a relatively normal pace.

Once we reach the devil’s opening statement - this flows very fast and angrily. There are a few choice swear words in there (content warning disclaimer 😉) that I felt were appropriate to the context.

“Your honour allow me to explain

We are here today to charge this dame

She has survived the centuries

Feeding from souls she stole from thee

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The earth has now become a prison

Instead of your perfect design for heaven

It began when she learned to worship the fire

gaining powers to manifest her desires

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But those desires are far from pure

And she tricks others to follow her obscure

games of deception that are now so vast

Earth’s skin has started disintegrating fast

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My insects and birds, instead of flying

Are being poisoned by the billion and rapidly dying

Humans imprison and torture innocent souls

For entertainment, pleasure and financial goals

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They sear flesh and drink of the udder

They self poison with alcohol and sleep in the gutters

They sell what is sacred for cheap dopamine

And stuff down their guilt with sweet nicotine

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And this is the world that she has created

It’s blasphemy at best, hell instated

How is this right that I must empower

The very person who destroys me by the hour!

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I can’t continue your honour, I’ve had enough

This hell has now become too much

I am forced to live on the edge of extremes

And my heart is burdened by the weight of Earth’s screams

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The elements have lost their ability to extol

For the humans are all under her control

How can balance possibly be restored?

When her grip is mighty and she is so adored?

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And by your laws I have to bestow

power to those who worship my flow

And she is devout in her praise

She offers me devotion, love and grace

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Yet look at what she does with this power!

She is using it to devour

Millions of souls everyday

And they all succumb to death and decay

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She’s done it so long and made life so formal

That all over this world they believe death is normal!!!

The pain in my heart is too much to bear

You must strip her of power before humans lose all care

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Look what’s happened to my beautiful crust,

Look at the mountains that they crumble to dust

Pouring my rock into the sea

To build more of what they call “city”

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Look at my forests being stripped bare

Look at the lands ablaze there

Look at the garbage dumped on my shores

Look at my rivers and chemicals poured

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Look at my ice, it’s melting in sheets

Can’t you feel my pain through every heart beat?

The humans have lost all sensitivity

They take plants from the earth to place in captivity!

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This devil has woven a maze, a web

Luring vulnerable humans into her bed

And they flock by the million to sign her deals

To exist on her decaying hamster wheels

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The game is rigged beyond belief

Of these poor humans she creates thiefs

She sets up terrible trickery

To walk them straight into misery

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You must see how all of her dealings

Are in complete disregard of my feelings?

She has them dredge soils in favour of mines

To build on vast evil heavenly shrines!!

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And so many humans follow her lead

Neglecting the very source that they bleed!

Look how they worship her and not me

I beg you to see this insanity!!!

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They all desire that which she sells

She offers my gold and in return they build Hell

This isn’t fair, it isn’t just,

You must help me, for in you I trust”

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The gods look to each other, each taking deep breath

They can all feel Mother Nature is very close to death

They see her aged skin, haggard and worn

Feel the depths of her pain and how her heart’s torn,

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They empathise with her, of course,

She’s their creation, they are her source

Her suffering is also theirs,

For after birth we’re forever paired

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They look at the devil, so sweet and demure

Curious to understand her more

“Well, young lady, what do you say

In defence of these powerful accusations today?”

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As she walks into to the witness stand

She rises with an air, haughty and grand

Flashing a smile for all to see

Confidence that she will walk away free

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Her beauty permeates the room

As captivating as Enceladus’ moon

Her curling locks of bright red hair

and Emerald eyes, a dazzling pair

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It’s clear from the outset she has the most power

Mother Nature, once majestic, how she now cowers

The Gods, they sigh and take a long inhale

“Go ahead, young lady, tell your tale”

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“Well. I really ought to start here if I may,

And express my utter disbelief and dismay.

There is nothing remotely unjust or unfair

About anything that is happening on Earth down there!!

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I’m outraged that I’ve been summoned today

For this is my time which should be spent in play

I have much to do, I am a busy soul

I’m Earth’s most powerful CEO

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And all that I do is well within your laws

I do no wrong (though I may have some ‘flaws’)

I worship Mother Nature from dawn until dusk

And I even wait until midnight to do most of my work

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So how she can do this to such a devotee

Is truly upsetting and baffling to me

Dragging me before your court

And telling the truth with such distort

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For someone supposedly so pure of heart

She’s certainly given me a terrible start

How awful to you I must sound

After hearing these accusations abound!

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She has introduced me with terrible repute

And all of it I must strongly refute!

When I am worshipping the divine,

The humans are choosing to commit these crimes!

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I can’t stop them or stand in their way!

What am I to do if they don’t want to pray?

Your gift of freewill is not mine to take!

That was made clear when Adam ate the snake!

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These humans choose their destiny

It’s their will to fund my companies

And in that you cannot interfere

I know the laws, and all of them I revere

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So why must I stand and plead my case?

When I commit no crime against Mother Nature or Grace?

I am your ideal model student!

I learned your laws, I am perfectly prudent!”

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“So you deny taking souls from ourselves

and turning Mother Nature to a land called Hell?

Trapping humans from ascending beyond?

To this accusation, how do you respond?”

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“First of all. I don’t take them, they are given

and all of them have the choice between hell and heaven

They all know your rules, and those rules they ignore

Ever since man first called woman “Hoare”

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Ever since man chose to infect

his body with flesh, consciousness in neglect

Neglecting his wife in favour of liquor

Becoming animal himself, and then choosing to bicker

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With anyone who dares to look his way

Even as his intoxicated mind begins to sway

So very uncaring, no love in man at all

Doesn’t he deserve to be punished and fall?

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When he raises his hands to his innocent child?

That’s not your frequency that he’s dialled

No! For that, you are not there!

That happened many times to me, and did any of you care?

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So fuck, so what if I grew up to be

what earth would call a vigilante?

I adhere to every one of your laws without distort

The originals, and not the ones man contorts

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I am the protector of your rules

Which I ensure they all learn in schools

or at least from a stranger, guide or preacher

I ensure every single one has a teacher

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So when I ask them to trade their soul

It from freewill, better they know!

No one should dare to accuse me

of operating my business unfairly

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And something else I wish to say

To all these accusations today

Is that all the consequences man is suffering

Are actually from laws that YOU are all governing

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Laws of Karma, law of mirrors

Law of cause and effect by their errors

These have nothing to do with me,

Those are foundations of this reality

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The very one that you all created

You can’t tell me now this isn’t fated?

If your rules are a problem and I am too

Then it seems you hadn’t really thought this creation through

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Because arguably I’m doing your work

I’m testing for the pure of heart!

They all have the choice to say no

To worship her and her winds that blow,

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They could bathe in the same rivers as I

They could climb mountains and worship her sky

They could salute the sun as she rises each day

They could get on their damn knees and pray

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They choose and choose to go the wrong way,

They harm each other day after day

betraying their brothers, raping their mothers

They sell their sisters and fuck over others

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And even the ones you think aren’t so bad

Well you should see them when they are mad

That’s the truest test of all

Push their buttons, you’ll soon see their morals fall

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Only the purest deserve to live,

Those who seek to love and give

And even I help them on their way

I rescue those who repent, save them day after day

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I’m your best worker, one for the highest good

So deeply, deeply misunderstood.

Mother Nature blames me for this construction ??

But is it not man and his destruction??

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I offer them their deepest desire

To test the love that you both so require

Don’t you want to ensure it’s true ?

Isn’t that important to you?

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Any man can fake his best

And act at being loving when there is no real test

Look at your precious Adam, after all

Bet none of you expected him to fall.

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But he gorged the snake flesh just like Eve

Became immensely skilled to trick and deceive

And of him your precious humans were born

And aren’t they really just something to mourn?

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You talk of them being innocent

But why then do they chose Dissent?

Your laws are pretty damn clear

Follow love, overcome fear

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But they hear your name and begin to jeer

Too busy ordering another fucking beer

Drowning out the voices they hear

Of their screaming conscience and wives endless tears

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Innocent? Really? You really think?

I think your smart enough to see the link

For you all know that no harm can befall

Any man with love in his heart for ALL

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How many saviours do you need to send

To watch these humans twist and bend

the words given to help them mend

rifts in their hearts that they just pretend

don’t exist while they angrily defend

being a sorry excuse for a friend”

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Composing herself

for the sake of her health

She takes a long, deep breath

and calmly adjusts her seashell dress

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She knows better than to be triggered

But this situation is just so hard to figure

All she ever did was help to spot

Whose hearts were fake and who’s were not

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The Gods look at each other in disbelief

And the Devil feels some welcome relief

They ask if she is finished her lengthy spiel

And she decisively offers one more reel

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“I am the one protecting your heavenly gate!

From these wretched souls who deserve such fate!

I am outraged that you haven’t thanked me to date

No appreciation or invitation to celebrate

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You pat each other on the backs

You talk nicely about how your all that

And down there it’s me doing your work

Alone on my throne with my golden pitchfork

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I give thanks for all my meals

I follow the rules, I never steal

You won’t see me harm a child

Or beating a mother because I’m wild

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Those humans are the disgusting bunch

Just watch them chewing on bones for lunch

From chickens slaughtered by the billions

And cows murdered by the millions

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And that’s not even in a week

The numbers are at an all time peak

They even made machines to do their killing

For the sake of some desired sandwich filling

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In their hearts is an evil poisoning love

I’ve seen children ripping the wings from a dove

Are these blessed creatures I ask?

You want to take over my earthly task?

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I can talk more, I could talk all day

I haven’t said even a fraction of what I’ve got to say

But I feel my blood pressure now rising

(Which given the circumstances is hardly surprising)

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Tell me what law I’ve supposedly broken

D’you even realise I’m a doctor? And I warn them stop smoking?

I give them every good advice

But the don’t even care if they buy arsenic rice

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So what more do you need before surmising

that you all ought to be apologising

for this disruption to my day

Interrupting my fun and play

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Bringing me to this court is criminal

How can conscious beings act so subliminal?

I’m appalled, outraged, disgusted

And now? I feel quite exhausted”

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The Gods look to each other and call for recess

In need of time to allow this to digest

They hadn’t been paying enough attention to earth

Too busy playing with new universes birthed

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Thinking that Earth was their perfect creation

Working like clockwork, not needing saving

But this case made it clear that things are not good

And much more needed to be understood

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For Mother Nature and humans were meant to be immortal

and follow the clues to God’s portal

Yet fewer humans had been arriving

“Since the Egyptians” Zeus was surmising

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“Numbers have been seriously down”

They looked to each other with serious frown

“I just assumed they wanted to stay,

After all, we created for them a land of play”

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“But it does now seem somewhat strange,

That so few have come in an 8000 year range”.

Allah looked to Justitia with so much sorrow

And the Gods agreed to adjourn until tomorrow.

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[to be continued]