Mother Earth needs to lie down
Another milestone.
Another millstone
around the neck of Mother Earth,
who has become a crone before her time,
bent and sweating, smothered
by the air of unfamiliar gases.
She gave us life- food, water, oxygen-
and we took it all, ungrateful children,
and wanted more.
We tore her open like a birthday present,
drilled under her seas, ripped through her soil,
as deep as we could get, almost to her core.
We took it all, set it on fire
and wanted more.
She gave us everything we asked, but it was far too much.
Now her energy is burnt and she is choking on the smoke.
With every new abuse she loses strength.
Our insatiable need to extract her life will be her doom,
the end for all the birds, flowers, fish and ourselves,
but still we want more.
If we will ever have a last chance
to save our Mother
it is now.
