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I Am Earth: Poem of a Dying Planet and Humanity’s Final Warning

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This poem is the third one I’ve written entitled I Am Earth. You can find the others here and here. They are also published in my poetry books, Miscellaneous Thoughts and One Poem a Day.


I am Earth
I am your mother.
I gave you birth.

For your greed
You plunder my wealth
And weaken me.

You care not
For my other offspring
You let them die.

Seas and oceans
You are destroying
With all your waste.

They will die
No life will be left
In their depths.

Unlike you
I think of the future
For each child.

All the life
That lives on my skin
Is in danger.

Think of this.
You are a parasite
That kills its host.

You will die
From wars and heat.
I won’t cry.

I WILL START AGAIN.

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I Am Earth. A Poem

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I am Earth.
I am your mother.
I gave you birth.

I gave you a nest.
A wonderful home
On which you can rest.

I gave you food .
Plenty to eat.
You waste all that’s good.

I gave you the seas
And forests and hills,
But you chop down the trees.

You think you’re so cool,
But you pollute the air
By the burning of fuel.

You heat up the air
And care not a jot
For the poor polar bear.

Animals die
Because of your greed.
You hear not their cry.

I teemed with life,
Both great and small.
Yet extinction is rife

Like a cancer you spread
Throughout the whole world.
It won’t end till you’re dead.

But I’ll make you pay
For all you have done.
You’ll be sorry one day.

I’ll shiver my skin.
Your buildings will fall
And bury your kin.

The land I will flood
By raising the seas
And drown all in mud.

My mountains so high
Will belch forth their flames
And you will all die.

I am Earth.
I am your mother.
I gave you birth.

BUT I WILL DESTROY YOU.