(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?