Thursday, November 17, 2011

               (A heart felt cry from the soul of Earth Mother.   Are we ready to listen to her?)
 What Am I Now?

What am I now? A haven once!
Now a shriveling wasteland.
The oceans, once a blue girdle
Swelling unfathomably
 Swallows me, python-like
The azure sky, a diadem
Adorning my head,
 Now deprives me
 Of life-giving air.      

My children, the humans -
Destroy my forests, trees, rivers,
 Hills, and vales rebelliously.
The living land - to cement jungle
And garbage pits reduced.     

I don’t know what I am now!
I am sick with cyclones,
Tremors and fire storms,
Yet the thirst for survival besets me.
Senile, losing control of body and spirit
I wonder!  Do my children,
My earthlings, see my struggle?
Will they revive me to survive,                              
harmoniously with them?                



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