Father Time and Mother Nature
This poem was inspired and written during the battle against the DAPL pipelines in 2016. Water is life.
Mni Wiconi.
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~*~ Father Time and Mother Nature ~*~
You both, abused and misunderstood, should be the talk of the town,
As the clock keeps ticking and the earth keeps crumbling down.
When will your children face the truth and take of their blinds,
What does it take to see and free them from the shackles of their minds,
Shackles with names like Revolution, Progress, Wealth and the likes.
Yet each and all will bury in fear and disbelief when nature strikes.
Earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions; all products of abuse,
It’s time for awareness, time for change, time for truce.
Don’t wait till your father his patience runs out,
Don’t pretend you don’t know what this is about.
We are the children of the earth, from under the heavens above,
We have the responsibility to our parents, to respect and to love.
Looking at us, they bow their heads down in shame and despair,
Begging us to stop polluting the waters the earth and the air.
Return to your origins, wake up and look what you have done,
Wake up and act now, don’t wait, act now, before its all gone.
Our Father and our Mother, had given us all that we need,
And us the children destroy them both, while blinded by greed.
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~*~ 8:52 pm D.S 10/22/2016 ~*~
