May Day, May Day.
Turning Point: Action
Required:
Poisonous chemicals
color rivers and streams; Ground waters run toxic,
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, Stripping the forests, farms
Destroying age-old civilizations.
The impoverished perish with spreading disease,
desertification
and from 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.
It is our only sanctuary, Earth
Toni Truesdale 2017
Art: Santuary copyright 2018
