My Earth poem: Crying Earth- from my published works "My Inner Light."

CRYING EARTH

I am the last of my kind, a dying breed, alone but for the sound of my own heartbeat.

So naïve, I let others walk upon me, now my fate is

To be left behind.

Gave life as I did, with best intentions at hand, but

Foolishly I left my fate, in the corrupted hands of man.

And take from me they did, never giving back to me.

The kindness I had given them. Now so weak, a way

To make them understand I seek, that I will not

Sustain them forever, if I die, we all die together.

Every resource they have taken, assuming I will

Replenish, they are mistaken.

Drilling holes in me, my wounds they do not see,

They believe the blood from my depths will

Somehow set them free.

They chop me down,

They carve me out,

They cant hear my screams,

Their machines are too loud.

Then down into the depths of my seas, now no unexplored

Ocean floor, no undisturbed creature, they destroy as they

Please.

And although I am so grateful, that there are some who try

To protect me. There are not enough, of the ones that love,

They shall perish with the rest of us.

Someday it will be to late, when my heartbeat finally fades,

And beats no more, no more places to explore, will they

Share my fate, or abandon me for the depths of space.

Will they someday realize there was a better way, that to scorch my surface,

With their wars of fear and hate.

Will they even care, that I nurtured them thru their birth. Or will they leave

Me lonely like children do, forever the CRYING EARTH.

                                                                                     -Fackerell 2008