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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