Don’t Take Her For Granted
She’s Your Home And Cannot Be Replaced.
Is the Earth reborn each year?
In many aspects, it certainly feels that way.
We witness the ground coming alive, burgeoning underfoot.
While the trees sprout new growth overhead,
Animals give birth in abundance during this turning of the wheel.
Yet they are not new, these creatures of the Earth.
Nor is the soil which nourishes the seeds and bulbs anew.
Mother Earth has been spinning since long before you or I set foot upon her.
After a long winter’s rest, She is revitalized with the dawning of the vernal cycle.
Welcoming the new furry and feathered inhabitants.
They join us in the neverending circle.
Gaia blesses us all with her bounty no matter the season
Yet we stomp, build, decimate, and destroy her finite resources.
Our only reason is unending greed.
No one knows when this became society’s creed.
No excuse valid enough for the destruction we have wrought.
If you look closely, you’ll see how worn she has become.
She shudders in discomfort and…
