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| Author: | Caunion cyn Britannia [ November 28th, 2007, 6:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Our Mother Art In Earth |
Yeah, a lovely little poem I wrote Our Mother Which Art In Earth When the Earth was born from fire and dust And began its endless journey around the Sun I was born to be the Earth’s stewardess To protect and care for the life it shall yield As the fiery rock Earth was cooled And blessed rain poured from the sky Life, indeed, emerged slowly Starting as tiny humble cells But from those humble beginnings Life began its growth, its evolution Until fishes filled the waters and seas And fowls multiplied in the skies And despite massive failings and deaths Life continued until one creature emerged The most clever, the most brilliant, the Most powerful, the most terrible: man In the beginning, he hid in caverns Watching fearfully as storms raged And animals prowled in the wild Yearning for their hot flesh and bone And I pitied him, pitied his inability To fight, to run, to swim, to fly So I gave him the only gift, no other Animal learned to master: fire And with fire, they proceed to Not care for the world, as I had But destroy it and all of its beauty For fury ruled in the heart of man He razed and burned my forests Spreading smoke in the clear sky He forged cruel hard weapons Stronger than those of nature He hunted down his fellow beasts Slaying them by the hundreds Mutilating them and leaving the rest To rot under the darkening sky Soon man forgot his own mother, who Had cared for him as he cowered away And in my stead, he thought of new gods Who ruled like man did, with an iron fist They came in many shapes and forms From the endless desert with words And truths that must be heard by all Spoken through faithful believers Different groups emerged, all with their Different gods and truths and followers Who killed and died in their god’s name And killed and died, sadly, for nothing My blind children, they listened to False words hidden by the darkness Goading them to feed their gods With the blood of heretics and infidels They killed and raped and burned, Enslaved and tortured and mutilated Destroyed their brothers and their Earth While I sadly watched them quarrel Then amidst the looming dark gods A new, more terrible one emerged He did not demand loyalty from man He owned the loyalty of man His only thought is to consume Without any second thoughts to The harsh consequences to come This god was called Industry Breathing black smoke into the air Devouring wood, coal, and oil Feeding the eternal greed of man With piles of worthless gold And soon my Earth, my beautiful world That, from its birth, I cared forever Began to break and boil and burn From the ignorant deeds of man Endless trees fell by the thousands Replaced with fire, ash, and dust Deserts rose and swept in to replace My forests that had grown for so long Ice caps, frozen since the last cold age Melted ever so fast, faster than before Oceans rose near man’s massive cities Built in honour of their arrogance Come back, my children! I plead you For your mother in Earth weeps Over you, my lost children who Has grown so twisted and evil Have you forgotten your mother? Who had cared for you as you hid In the dark caves from the storm Who gave you the fire of death Forsake your senseless violence No god, real or imagined, would Ever demand so much from you So much hate, so much blood Forsake your wicked industry Do not defile your very home In the name of gold and dollars Destroying all that was fair So my children, please, please Come back to your mother and We can repair your mistakes And restore the beauty of life Turn back from your violence Your hatred, your false gods Then we shall heal the world And bring peace to our Earth |
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