Mother Earth Cries

I was there for the first Earth Day
A new modern idea
That lived before in all generations

Many people do not hear
As they toss Styrofoam and plastics
Thinking selfishly

Naming a day does not wake the world
We are a society of disposable madness
Appliances, computers, phones...

Some businesses think
There's an infinite supply
For their demand

Dad knew there would be A Silent Spring
Before Rachel Carson wrote it
We lived to prevent this death

My ancestor's from Ireland
Leaving the Great Potato Famine
Settled here

Native ancestors
Lived by the rule
Take one, leave two

No one knows but
My ancestor's did
And passed that down

We are just the caretakers
Our duty is not to destroy
But enrich the land

Recycle, reuse, repurpose, words
I learned at my grandparents' knees
It's our duty to continue

Mother Earth cries
For the loss, for the madness
That rules the world today

You can change that
Beginning now
Nourish The Mother

Or we may waken
To a silent world
A dead world

To only remember trees
bird songs, grass,
frogs and teeming oceans

A mere beginning
To death of Her/Us
Mother Earth cries

Written from my heat

for Poets United Earth Day

The Mag

A challenge...

the picture is linked to many more who answered it.

• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. 

• No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. 

Quotes from the author of  "Silent Spring" Rachael Carson

SILENT SPRING

IF WE HAD ONLY LISTENED TO RACHAEL

OUR FATE COULD HAVE CHANGED

IF WE HAD ONLY LISTENED

THERE WOULD BE NO NEED

FOR USELESS ATTEMPTS

TO REPAIR MOTHER EARTH.

THE SCIENTISTS SCRAMBLE FOR SOLUTIONS

BUT NO ONE WAS LISTENING

WHEN RACHAEL SPOKE

AND THEY STILL DON'T BELIEVE.