This is your earth that calls you now, The denizens have left me stripped, over mined, robbed of every vital sign I'm barely breathing. I cry now for my many children stolen from the cradle by careless disregard. I tremble in frustration as I question why every life is threatened to which I've given breath. My waters, once so pure now polluted, kill its precious stores, All my creatures of the sea abused, some dying banked on shores, some dissected lying on a plate creamed in soup or in pate. Toxic waste and acid rain mean certain death and pain, fewer species now being found. Those that once roamed in plenty all cut down before their prime, slaughtered by a trophy searching hand. A thousand times a thousand robbed of life, habitat and home. The mighty pachyderm, rhino and gorilla moan the death of all their own. Parrot and butterfly swept away from rain forests cut to compete, to meet, man's ever mounting supply and demand. A tropic paradise now deplete of all that lived and shared its land. I cry for all my human children too those malnourished, lost in Chernobyl, and those poisoned, alone, starving in war torn streets who never had a chance, those lacking water that doesn't reek of urine in the Middle East. Alas, all these children of the Earth go hungry for my care. What can I do? My heart is bleeding. No doubt you've heard my cries My plea to you to save, to resurrect your home from the grave. Every earthquake and tidal wave is a sigh that tells you of my grief, the Ever-present crisis now beneath your feet. What else must I do to call to action the loving restoration that will bring relief? The time has come to heal this heart of mine bleeding deep within the fissures of my core, to wash clean my blood, oil stained polluted shores. The time has come, for my children to return to me the love I so freely gave to them. My time has come. Your time has come. For in saving me, the earth that birthed you all, you give life to yourself and every other living thing. The time has come to harken to the call to join with every other forgiving and forgetting the separateness of past within and with out. The miracle shall heal us all. The time has come . . . I ask you all, every single one, Surround our heart with loving peace to birth a miracle on earth. Hear sounds of new life stirring overhead and underneath. Know it shall be the greatest, grandest show of all . . . by saving me, the Earth you improve . . . the quality of life for all.
By Shirl A. Steward copyright 1995
(Theme Poem, Earth Days ‘95) Painting by Danielle Coen
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