Earth

A sleep so deep She can’t awaken

The ground beneath you slightly shaken

What once was given, now is taken

She has been forsaken.

A breath of life to a lethal virus

A kiss of death to an empty iris

A cycle eternal, undesirous

She used to admire us.

Dancing in the remains of predecessors

Defiling their essence, raising oppressors

Such is the project of Her daily aggressors

She taught our professors.

Why, She wondered, don’t you walk

She gave you legs and yet you mock

Why must you speed Her ticking clock

She could hear it - tick tock.

Digging deep under Her skin

Even the strongest will wear thin

She never should have let it in

She continued to spin.

All of Her children cry out, they bawl

One bad egg, slaughters them all

Nourishing them causes others to fall

She used to stand so tall.

Everpresent, taken for granted

Stripped and bared, nothing replanted

Her essential organs, taken, transplanted

She had been enchanted.

She waited but they just went wronger and wronger

Another, another, another warmonger

She had hoped She could have held on for longer

She thought She was stronger.

Nothing left, the movement’s in motion

There’s no going back, no magic potion

A break, a rest, mercy: a notion

She was just an ocean.

A day reaches end, a noxious night nigh

The smoke in Her lungs clouding the Sky

Choices, poor choices, they cheat and they lie

She knew they’d have to die.

No change happens, and in Her plight

She prepares Herself for one more fight

She had a spark, it burned too bright

She must put out the light.