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August 10, 2007
Earth 2012
Have I ever told you, I love you?
Your worldly round wobbling shape
Blue masses of churning H2O
With sea creatures swimming like we imagined
When we played in our clear pools of childhood
High peaks touching vaporous damp clouds
That seem to drift over your body like a soft blanket
Replenishing your surface with cool falling rain
Sweet smells of ever changing new life
Where are you planning to go, Mother?
All of us children who live in wonder on your aching back
Wildlife running with startled wide eyes and nervous feet
Green foliage and trees sinking their roots even deeper
Surrounded by torn, relinquished soil
That grows genetically modified broccoli and apples
Tasting more like slightly wet paper
That has been cut into shapes of fish and pears
Maybe it is the concrete and glass cities of mind numbing burden
With unspoken grief, pharmaceutical despair
And thick air sickened with infectious, bacterial greed that kills
Spreading like the waste we dump on barges with no place to go
Do you really want to change all of this?
How did the Maya know your plan?
Scientists nod their heavy heads that sit on strained shoulders
Slumping from the all night hours spent before their computer shrines
The Discovery Channel shows the universal signs
Pointing to that moment in time when you shift your moods
Changing polar opposites in a planetary alignment
A meeting that last took place just 25000 years ago
Now you must keep that date once again … December 21, 2012
I still love you any way
Posted by kay at August 10, 2007 04:52 AM