Prayer to la Sagrada Tierra

April 5, 2011

'...Madre de gracia
Madre de misericordia
en la vida
y en la muerte
amparanos gran señora...'

Protect us dear Mother
protect us from our own fears

How could we have manifested
these needless tears
throught generations?
centuries?

Yet we've not reached past
our ignorance,
vast confusion.

We are in constant fear
of your wrath...
that you,
Grandious Earth
will swallow us alive

We're brain-washed
assuming we've damaged you
immensly!

When to you,
the cuts and bruises
are mere pimples.

We humans are mere
microorganisms
traveling around
your magnificent,
bodacious body

Dear Mother...
your core is unreachable,
untouchable,
Sacred!

Your skin is rich and fertile
in tan and red tones

Your hair grows
and grows...
freshly lush
green and sweet...

I love to taste your hair
its nutrients I enjoy!

Your blood
ebbs... it flows
through the elements

Water
Wind
Fire

! te adoro
Oh, Madre Tierra!

tercer planeta
en el Milky Way

Silky it looks
in the Universe

sweet it must taste
to demi gods

You wear
slight cleavage
voluptuous curves
in your deep valleys
and high mountain ranges

Whether you ever
feel ill
or really great

your body quivers,
it quakes!

How could we so microbial
for so long
still assume that
we hurt you?

You can shake us off
like chain-linked ants
we could seize to exist
and you
not only can
not only will...

You just have
and will Be!

I write this to you
Mother, dear
because I know

that no chemicals,
no plastics,
no electronics
could ever harm you.

You gave man kind
the materials
the minerals

to use...
experiment with

to us in 500 years.
to you, in a few days
Everything we manufacture
will return to what it was.

The Hopi know
what you're all about.
So they just don't worry.

Can the rest of us
do the same?

You sneezed...
scratched an itch

and it flooded houses
swiped out
entire cities

You say... 'oops!"
God gives us strength.

And still we do
cherish
and worship you
So

'... Por la señal
de la Santa Cruz
de nuestros enemigos
libranos señor nuestro...'

Free us
from assuming
so much
about this Earth
we live in.

When we follow
your path

We know what we're capable of
and can just be.