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Mother oh Mother
Mother why do they execute you before sunset?
What crime did you commit to deserve a fate such as this?
Did you fail to provide for your children's needs and greeds
Or keep water from their mouths when their thirst went un-quenched?
Perhaps you forgot to feed their hunger for more and more
Maybe you left your children unprotected from each other
And when they journeyed into unknown lands did you forget them?
Did you not provide them with direction when they were lost?
But for you they would have no sunset to schedule your death
No rains would come to drink or water seeds to feed their greeds
The sun was yours to keep them warm and see your beauty all around
You held up the stars and the moon to guide them through darkness
Still they kill you with sticks broken from trees that you grew
Strung up with weeds to blow the answer in the wind
They melt the frozen waters to drowned the world in human sorrow
And if you're not dead by then they'll stone you when the sun set ends
Copyright © 2004 JJ Johnson
US Copyright Office Registration: TXu1-162-978
What crime did you commit to deserve a fate such as this?
Did you fail to provide for your children's needs and greeds
Or keep water from their mouths when their thirst went un-quenched?
Perhaps you forgot to feed their hunger for more and more
Maybe you left your children unprotected from each other
And when they journeyed into unknown lands did you forget them?
Did you not provide them with direction when they were lost?
But for you they would have no sunset to schedule your death
No rains would come to drink or water seeds to feed their greeds
The sun was yours to keep them warm and see your beauty all around
You held up the stars and the moon to guide them through darkness
Still they kill you with sticks broken from trees that you grew
Strung up with weeds to blow the answer in the wind
They melt the frozen waters to drowned the world in human sorrow
And if you're not dead by then they'll stone you when the sun set ends
Copyright © 2004 JJ Johnson
US Copyright Office Registration: TXu1-162-978
Published 28th Oct 2011
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28th Oct 2011 11:06pm
29th Oct 2011 5:34am
Thank you for commenting Jody, glad you like it and welcome to DU Poetry. Hope to be reading some of your work here soon. Peace, JJ
28th Oct 2011 11:52pm
An ode to mother earth.Burst of nature's colours in my mind. As usual Poetryman, you are good.
Thanks again Grace. Mother Nature is striking back early this year. We are going to have a heavy snow storm tomorrow night, might lose power because the trees still have leaves on them and the snow is going to be a heavy wet snow. I might not be on-line for a few days. Peace, jj
29th Oct 2011 10:51am
14th Aug 2012 5:28am
I can now, truthfully, say that I have read this. Mother Nature. A beautiful and wonderful thing. Nice, JJ!
It is tragic what mankind is doing to our precious earth.
It is tragic what mankind is doing to our precious earth.
14th Aug 2012 7:01am
Thanks for commenting Jessica! Mankind or man-unkind? I often wonder why people will do things that go against their own sel-interests. Usually it is because they have some other interest that they think takes a higher proprity than survival. Everyone knows they will die someday, so they want as much money to live as comfortably as they can while they live, and they hedge their bets that they won't be here long enough to see the end of the world. It makes it so much easier to kill Mother Nature if you can't hear her screaming "STOP!"
