Mother Earths Tears
She cries for her children,
her body sick and spent,
poisoned by her own.
Disconnection breeds ignorance;
sever the umbilical,
a disconnected cable brings on malfunction;
a child taken from its mother
doesn’t respect.
Mother Earth weeps,
centuries of anguish and lament
are more than she can bear.
Her children are many,
two-legged, four-legged, winged and finned;
she watches them destroy one another.
The two-legged’s have not learned
that they will always need her
and their siblings.
With all of your Universities
and education,
you remain unlearned.
Respect is earned by, the giving of same;
she births her own with love and respect,
receiving little in return.
You eat her food,
strip her hair and skin;
burn her with chemicals,
taint her tears with acid;
you poison your mother,
do you think the Great Spirit
appreciates this slaughter?
She is his child,
just as you.
You hide behind religions,
pretending to worship God,
while you slaughter his daughter
and your own siblings.
Mother Earth’s tears,
are for you, as well;
when you’ve poisoned the ground,
food can’t grow.
When you’ve destroyed the
fish, fouls, mammals;
you’ve obliterate yourselves.
There’s nothing so deadly,
as the allegedly,
educated-ignorant.
3-24-2021
A Meaningful Poem - Poetry Contest
Constance La France
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