Our Earth Mother

 We do not treat her as our greatest friend

The one who will claim us when our life's journey end

The one who feeds us humans as well as all

Life forms of the World from the great to the small

The one who supplies food for us every day

Respect to her we never do pay

Without her us humans could not exist

Yet in our greed for her resources on our abuse of her we do persist

Our Earth Mother her human friends are too few

And this is not saying anything that is new

The one we do depend on for to live

We take and take from her and in return to her nothing give

The folly on our behaviour to her we cannot seem to see

We treat her as we would treat an enemy

We cut down her trees and her forests denude

To such a dear friend we are so very rude

What we do to her to our own selves we do

This applies to me as well as to you

Our Earth Mother the one who does feed all

Of us humans as well as all life forms from the great to the small.