Mother Earth and Man
Posted on Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Mother Earth and Man
By
Apolinario Villalobos
Looking
back when time began
God
said the words
Giving
life to all
That
He desired,
The
endless expanse of the void
Was
filled with motley specks
That
moved with harmony -
A
prodigious task
Of the Almighty.
A
tiny dot in the universe
Mother
Earth throbbed with life
As
God made her a living sphere
Covered
with green and blue
All
part of God’s grandiose plan
Done
in a few days of divine toil,
Though,
He rested finally
Being,
at last satisfied -
On
the seventh day.
Out
of a handful dust from her womb
God
made Adam, by such name he was called
And
with God’s breathe of life
What
was once a lump with limbs
Has
become like Him in image
And
let to roam the Garden of Eden
But
then, loneliness soon had its toll
Which
when God has perceived -
From
Adam’s rib, He made Eve.
Mother
Earth now nurtures
Not
only lesser creatures
But
the pair that God made
In
some aspects, in His own image.
A
paradise, Eden was supposed to be
But
to it, a serpent found its way
Tempting
Eve to have a taste of ecstasy
And,
no sooner than she did have a bite
She
made Adam commit the same depravity!
The
blunder made by Adam and Eve
Instigated
the misery of Mother Earth
As
they opened the floodgate of afflictions
That
soon blemished her once pristine face;
Greed
and selfishness, for long led lives -
Cain
putting to death his own brother Abel,
And
many other stories that are written
On
the sacred pages of the age-old Book-
All
it needs is for us is to take a serious look.
Warnings
that Mother Earth belched
In
her effort to wake man up with a jolt
Did
not budge him even a single bit
Instead,
pride bloated him to the utmost
That
into the fetid air, made him float
And,
as he breathes in more turpitudes-
It
would be no wonder, when he bursts!
That
will be the day when not even time
Shall
move its hands as they should be,
That
will be the day when not even rain
Shall
fall with life giving sweet droplets,
That
will be the day when not even birds
Shall
fill the air with their lilting tweets,
And
the cool breeze shall no longer blow-
Leaving
Mother Earth cloaked in sorrow!
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