Ode to Mother Earth
Posted on Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Ode to Mother Earth
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 satisfied at
last
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.
Alas! Mother Earth
now nurtured
Not only lesser
creatures
But the pair that God
made
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 apostasy!
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 others whose
names are written
On the sacred pages
of the age-old Book
And all it needs is
for us is to take a serious look.
And it is so sad,
As warnings that
Mother Earth belched
In her effort to wake
man up with a jolt
Did not budge him
even just a bit…
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