Gifts Given Freely

Why do we fight
For what falls as freely from the sky
As light?
As water?

Why do we kill
For what grows as freely from the ground
As food?
As shelter?

Why do we turn our woods into weapons?
Why do we beat our steel into swords?
Why do we use our grasp of math
Of science
Of the nature of the universe
To make bombs?
To make machines
Which kill so freely?
As freely
As the sun comes
As the rain comes
As the food grows
As the tree grows.

E.S. Wynn (USA)