Grandmother’s Prayer
“I am a voice for the voiceless. We are speaking to an
unseen world.
Speaking for Mother Earth, trying to stop our spiritual
blindness.
We speak for the animal kingdom, for those in the waters,
for the ‘four leggeds’ and the one leggeds(trees), the Bengal tiger, the
elephant, the creepy crawlers.
I pray that the creator hears us. The creatures have a right
to be. The creator gave us instructions about this and how to be a long time
ago. He told us ways to take care of ourselves, what to eat and where to live.
But now we are unbalanced.
We cut the green off our Mother’s face. We pollute the
water, Her blood.
We do clearcut logging on the tops of mountains, when the
trees they are the ones that call the wind and rain. Without the ancient trees
at the top of our mountains, we are in trouble. The little trees can’t do the
same work as the old trees that have been destroyed”... Grandmother Agnes Baker
Pilgrim
