Turning Point: Action Required
Ground waters run toxic
Poisonous chemicals color rivers and
streams;
Ocean dead zones expand
As sea creatures struggle with our plastic
waste.
Our lands are being stripped and broken;
In pursuit of fossil fuels that belch
out greenhouse gasses.
Expanding housing and gleaning,
Strip the forests, farms and age-old civilizations.
The impoverished perish with
Spreading disease, desertification and
rising vector lines;
The swelling of waters swamp fragile sea
coats.
Chemicals, petroleum and nuclear
accidents endanger entire ecosystems,
Extinctions accelerate.
Yet
we continue to prevail destruction upon the sacred earth.
Land, sea, waters, air once pristine not
long ago
Are wastelands expanding daily
To suffocate all life on Earth.
Warned by the Indigenous peoples of the
world.
We wonder now with the knowledge of the perceptions
foretold.
But who among us will stand?
There
is only one world,
Every culture on earth has a sacred name
for her.
Where humans migrated,
A word expressed love, sustenance,
thanks
To the great, common Mother.
May we remember them now.
Toni Truesdale 2017
Earth Mother copyright 2001
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