BY GLORIA O’KOYE
Mother Earth
Is in a domestic dispute,
With her beloved
It broke her spirit
To bring her wrath
And caused the love of her life
Such sadness
A tale with
An unpredictable end,
Happy endings
Or
The End could be tragic
How could this be?
We must go back to the beginning!
She swore to cherish those
Who enter her sacredness
To nourish them
For billons of solar returns,
She watched great powers
Bow down and humbled
By her fury
She only does
What she needs to do,
In order to protect
Herself and those
Emerging from dust,
A chance to breathe in glory!
One of her most current lovers
She adorn so much,
Had wooed her
By their adaptive ability!
Surviving miniature apocalypses,
Her newfound love
Managed to beat all the odds,
And learn how to conquer
Too bad this lover became too greedy
Drinking up her generosity
And taking her kindness for weakness
Mother Earth had snapped back
In casting plagues and famines,
Praying for change of hearts
After her lover got disciplined
I apologize
On behalf of your lover
Mother Earth,
For we do not want to understand
Our disruptive nature
Spilling our ungratefulness
Into your waters
And piling up resentfulness on your fragile body
Ploughing your natural curves
To admire man made structures,
We become careless at the species
Who were before us?
And we stomp everything around
With our corrosive footprints
Mother Earth
You are too pure
For us
So we would learn
Se we would learn
To be continued…
