EARTH DAY 2023

     Every year, April 22nd, marks the anniversary of the birth, in 1970, of part of the modern environmental movement. This year’s Earth Day theme is: Invest in Our Planet. The effort of hundreds of millions of people globally continues to redress exploitation of Nature’s resources, and practically regain a sustainable and balanced life-style for all of humanity.

This poem is dedicated to and honours this beautiful, beautiful Earth in which we live:

Mother  - by Geri Andrews

The Earth is my mother,
I was born from her, and in truth, not from any other.
I love and cherish her as my own,
And never far from her cradle do I want to roam.

For when the final breathe leaves this body in which I dwell,
She’ll take it back into her womb, so a new life she can meld.
How can I not feel humbled and respect her awesome might,
There is no point this inevitable fact to fight,
But rather surrender, in a state of hope and joy,
To relish each passing day and thankfulness employ.

The will of life to live itself overcomes all constraint,
And seeks to manifest a continuous creation in replicate.
Each breathe energising a soul so unique
In its individuality, in its very own special mystique.

Forever one, forever countlessly diverse,
Such is the nature of my Mother Earth.
A perfect peace is born of love to nurse,
In which all beings are blessed with the ability to converse.

Her nature is my true nature, the core of my heart,
The place inside of me from where I must not depart.
For to lose touch with that ocean of repose deep within
Leaves me feeling stranded on a beach of grief and chagrin.

So I pray to my Mother and friend
Her grace and beauty my soul to attend,
That I may any trials or troubles transcend,
Have recourse to her strength on which I depend.

May I accept the living breathe flowing freely within me,
Its delicate indestructibility is my life, is my key.
May I continue to thirst for the knowledge of peace in my heart,
To feel each day as a fresh new start,
That gentle feeling, neither here neither there,
Just loving the moment, to care and to share.

  An arial view of the Heart of Voh, New Caledonia
Image by xiSerge from Pixabay