The Emerald forest

The Emerald Forest: a beautiful movie
About a little boy who disappears into the forest!
His father searches for him for years and years
Travelling up the Amazon River: meeting new tribes
Trying to find his son: never giving up: never surrendering!
Look at the Amazon today: where millions once lived
Now maybe less than ten thousand: God only knows
After all it has been almost 30 years since this was filmed
Why do I love this movie? It is for the simple facts of truth!
What is beautiful to one may not seem beautiful to another!
The simple jungle life: so natural and beautiful yet so dangerous
Wild animals: a part of daily living: gathering nature's bounty
Other tribes encroaching upon your territory: stealing your land
Stealing your women. Killing and eating your people
What about living in the jungle that is the city?
People with guns who shoot at anything that moves
Alcohol and drugs in the ghettos: people living on the edge
What is good to one: not so to the others!
After 10 years of searching: Tommee is found
Living with the Invisible People: natives from the deepest jungle
The words of the Indian father: 
"When I was young the edge of the world was further away
Now it is very close: less than a days journey away!"
Tommee is growing into manhood when his father finds him
He is ready to take a wife;  make a family: of an age to care for them
Yet in "civilization" he'd just be a teenager not ready for anything similar
Years are different in the two cultures; so vastly different!
Responsibility lays where it needs: upon the shoulders 
Of those ready to be accepted into their roles upon their graduation
From child into adult: do we really take note of such significant change?
Do we allow children to stay as children for too long?
Not giving them a chance to act as adults until we think them of an age
Rather than when they are ready to actually face the challenges?
So many questions: who knows the correct answers? I don't!