...of Earth & Spirit

Earth Song

When the tears start falling

And my heart dives down deep

And my crying does not seem to cease

And down my face the rivers creep

Until I plead for peace…

  Sing! says my Mother;

  Sing until you smile –

  Until your heart leaps from your chest,

  Until the fledglings fly the nest,

  Until the sun lays down to rest –

  Sing the River Nile!

And when the people feed the hate

And feed the wars and feed the blood

And shun the needy and the poor

And throw themselves upon the mud

And still cry out for more…

  Sing! says my Mother;

  Sing until they live –

  Until they know the song they killed,

  Until they feel the hate they willed,

  Until their emptiness is filled –

  Sing with love to give!

And when the planet feels the pain

And when her dying body heaves

And when her sadness fills my core

And while the painful web still weaves

Until my soul cries out, no more...!

  Sing! says my Mother Earth;

  Sing until they see –

  Until the cosmos lives as one,

  Until our victory is won,

  ‘Til once again my song is sung –

  Sing my spirit free!

  (2001)

EARTH

A fragile, floating bubble swirling aqua, green and white,
A Chinese lantern glowing through the blackness of the night.

A Christmas decoration hanging on a haggard thread,
A large and precious jade stone with splattered flecks of red.

An oily coloured marble softly spinning in my hand,
A tangled web of tumbleweed that rolls across dry land.

A snowball caught in rays of sun, melting...melting...gone,
A fading, fading image of a light bulb still switched on.

An aura of a candle shining softly while I sleep,
A light within the dark that offers comfort when I weep.

A tethered, leathered football, kicked and thrown and tossed,
A perfect, rounded crystal found in early hours of frost.

A spectacle of wonders, yet unsurpassed in worth,
A vision of creation that surrounds us at our birth.

(1997)