Born was I when the Earth was formed,
mingling with gases ; playing in dust;
forming oceans ; planting grasses;
sexing creatures and giving them lust
to populate the everywhere.
As for me, I joined the forces
up the stairs and down beneath;
little did I comprehend
what a mess were the courses
of joy and mingled grief.
some how or other nothing was satisfied
to live their time as was planned,
but so it is when growing up,
wisdom failed when stupor fanned
its pleasant air all gratified.
Soon I came of age and married
the Sun that scortched the Earth;
I plowed the furrows for seed of seasons
and found migrations hurried
to climes addressed to their reasons.
The more the old I got,
I forgot to teach the recent born of man
to not destroy that which held
the regions of water from sand,
thus there came encroaching hell.
Deathly ill I became
as man in wish dismembered me
and changed my mind of protect of him;
he took my arms from around the trees
and spread my feet across asphalt seas.
Hot seasons battled with frozen ones
and laughed at melting ice of seas
that man had caused the done undone
when mountains bowed to coal's disease
and friction of machines became hot as sun.
I cried and shouted, "Help save me !"
but only a few did respond
yet not until the intolerable sea
threatened to make the land a pond,
Now I wonder will man save him and me. |
Submission Name: Memoirs of Nature
