Gaia

The sun now rests  
within the beating of my heart  
life flowing outward, pulsing in my veins  
on my left shoulder sits an ever changing moon  
a serene and maddening unearthly glow  
nighttime stars adorn my brow  
a tiara of love, of knowledge, and wanderlust  
   
Beneath my feet a sea grows green  
tendrils of life mirroring galaxies  
I balance on the cusp of time  
watching life collide  
in ever changing patterns to survive  
   
I am mother  
Gaia  
midwife to strife  
teacher, lover, prisoner enthralled  
swaying to the music of ethereal design  
my fingertips holding the spark divine  
   
poisoning all, the hubris of man  
the power to destroy at my command  
I weep for the earth and cry for mankind  
my tears fall as summer rains  
bringing rebirth to this earthly plane  
   
all life begins in the absence of light  
seeds grow in darkness deep in my womb  
with all my love I am consumed by  
the simple joy of earth's existence and  
the ever changing patterns of our cosmic dance  
from darkness to light to life