Earth: Our Mother

The Earth is a perfect nurturer

Who gives all the most tender care:

Her joy is golden warmth

Like sweet dripping honey

That invigorates the soul.

Her sorrow is the fresh downpour,

That helps life flourish.

Birds, bees, plants and trees

In Mother Earth’s garden live in harmony:

Her children play and work together

In the cool breezy lanes of life.

Earth aka Nature is a wise woman 

Who sees and knows all:

The arrival of the new,

The departure of the old.

She aspires not for an iota of her creations,

Yet we humans have destroyed everything of her.

We must end our mother’s suffering by remembering that

She provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs,

But not every man’s greed.