MOTHER EARTH

Flurries of snow

Soft flakes

Falling wildly yet gently onto the unsuspecting land

Falling and covering with a whiteness

With a blanket

Which is itself a purity

A virgin mantle

Covering Mother Earth

Cocooning her in a tenderness which she has not known for many a while

Raped Mother Earth

Groaning in her anguish

Despoiled by the hands which are her children

Raped and plundered for her treasures

Which she so readily gives

Mother Earth who gives - asking nothing in return

Ah! Mother Earth!

How can we right the wrong that we have done?

How can we restore to you that which we have taken?

That which we have stolen?

Your Beauty gone

Ah! Mother Earth!

Some of your children care

We look upon your face and see ourselves

Ourselves - born of you

We curse those of our brethren who have despoiled you

Those of our brethren who have marred your Beauty

Yet - Beauty you still have in our eyes

For you are our Mother

And to you, again, we will return

We will give of ourselves to you

We will return to you when our days of living are over

We will return to you in our Love

To be interred, once more, within your womb

To be enfolded - nourished in our death

Yet - not our death

For we shall, once again, become of Mother Earth

That living being

That breathing Beauty

Giving forth, so willingly, of her treasures

One of which we shall become


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