For Mother Earth

What's causing this disturbance?

This instability

What's causing me to toss and turn at night?

What's stopping my mind from relaxing?

What's holding me back from dreaming?

What's holding me back from falling asleep?

Woman,

I am torn into tiny fragmented pieces

My soul shattered by your pain

I'm no longer able to lie my head down close beside you

 for fear of your anger

Your brokeness, fractured, splintered

Splitting into every direction

Cracking

Breaking apart without warning or hesitation

Wreaking hell and havoc beyond imagination

For too long this revolution has been too silent

Stirring deep inside of you

But who can blame you?

After enduring transgression after transgression

Is there no other reason?

Is there any other explanation?

Who knew and who could see all these things coming?

The tragic results and consequences

of man's negligence and greed

Woman, what did they expect?

Hardly not this stormy reaction for the entire world to see

With open wounds and scars proudly showing

Cuts more than miles high and miles deep

Reflecting the pain, damage and destruction

Both of our grieving hearts bleeding

Deep inside of you and 

deep inside of me

by Michele Simone