GAIA CRIES ...

Indigenous peoples everywhere

Lived in harmony with the earth.

She nourished them; she nurtured them,

In death, through life, at birth.

For them, the earth was sacred -

Gaia, Goddess; Gaia, Mother.

She supported, she sustained them.

They depended on each other.

Then, came men from the Old World,

Their eyes a-blaze with greed.

"I see ..." "I like ... " "I love ...!"

"I want ...!" "I take ...!" "I NEED ...!!"😡

Millennia of mindful care,

Roughly brushed away.

Took just a couple of centuries -

Give or take a day.

"We came! We saw!! We conquered!!!

"We trash - because we can .... !!!!"

I shake my head in disbelief,

Cry tears of anger and of grief.....

"We trash - because we can....."???!!!😢

Well🤔 ...

"What a piece of work is man".....😢

Ffion

Ffion Original Poems