This poem was inspired and written during the battle \u00a0against the DAPL pipelines in 2016. \u00a0Water is life.<\/p>\n
Mni Wiconi.<\/p>\n
~*~<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ~*~ Father Time and Mother Nature\u00a0~*~<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n You both, abused and misunderstood, should be the talk of the town, Earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions; all products of abuse, Looking at us, they bow their heads down in shame and despair, ~*~<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ~*~ 8:52 pm D.S 10\/22\/2016\u00a0~*~<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This poem was inspired and written during the battle \u00a0against the DAPL pipelines in 2016. \u00a0Water is life. Mni Wiconi. ~*~ ~*~ Father Time and Mother Nature\u00a0~*~ 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poems-about-life","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperedwords.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs the clock keeps ticking and the earth keeps crumbling down.
\nWhen will your children face the truth and take of their blinds,
\nWhat does it take to see and free them from the shackles of their minds,
\nShackles with names like Revolution, Progress, Wealth and the likes.
\nYet each and all will bury in fear and disbelief when nature strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIt’s time for awareness, time for change, time for truce.
\nDon’t wait till your father his patience runs out,
\nDon’t pretend you don’t know what this is about.
\nWe are the children of the earth, from under the heavens above,
\nWe have the responsibility to our parents, to respect and to love.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nBegging us to stop polluting the waters the earth and the air.
\nReturn to your origins, wake up and look what you have done,
\nWake up and act now, don’t wait, act now, before its all gone.
\nOur Father and our Mother, had given us all that we need,
\nAnd us the children destroy them both, while blinded by greed.<\/span><\/p>\n