Poetry
Requiem for Lost Love
The Earth is shifting tectonic plates,
Her moods are gone all awry-
She is raining in the dry season,
Heating and freezing in fits,
Erupting unreleased anger. As she lies down,
She is pulping us under a foot.
Slapping us here or swatting us there,
Pinning us under an elbow, or smearing to the ground
With the back of her hand
Clusters of human pests. The Earth is growing restive-
Her mothers' breasts milked
to the last drop of patience. They're drilling her knees for coal.
Inside her lovely abdomen
long syringes have been inserted
to suck out the gas.
She is feeling ill. With elbow over eyes she waits,
As hordes of bloodthirsty gnats
throw daily death-bombs
to destroy communities.
Stuffing chunks of oil ore
inside power greedy mouths. They're justifying black deeds by tall speeches.
In the Centres of Learning the resounding claps drown out the cries of dying children. The Earth body is bleeding daily.
Her true children are forced at gun-point
Inside 'Aborigine' camps and 'Red Indian' reserves.
with their toppled gods-
hiding their manhood
with the last shreds of defeat. In the Institutions of Democracy they decide
who to kill next or which country to destroy.
They make nuclear power
from a collection of the best brains,
washed and compressed
in their factories,
so they can kill in masses. The Earth is not well-
they've got in her hair.
With long scalpels they're now
drilling her icy scalp
for more oil reserves. The Earth rest is broken.
She will rise soon
for we've lost her love.
Then as her body stretches up
she will tread, jump, throw
herself about,
In a primeval dance of renewal-
her goddess-corpus rid
of maggots. When after the last wash
of tsunamis and floods
she is perfectly clean,
She will rest once again. New seed will enter her womb
And after her confinement,
She will give birth once more
to a new breed Ready to run all over their mother's body
with lovely kissing feet,
In a new children's world
of innocence and play,
Striking joy in the
once again ripened breast
of feeding and growing
Her moods are gone all awry-
She is raining in the dry season,
Heating and freezing in fits,
Erupting unreleased anger. As she lies down,
She is pulping us under a foot.
Slapping us here or swatting us there,
Pinning us under an elbow, or smearing to the ground
With the back of her hand
Clusters of human pests. The Earth is growing restive-
Her mothers' breasts milked
to the last drop of patience. They're drilling her knees for coal.
Inside her lovely abdomen
long syringes have been inserted
to suck out the gas.
She is feeling ill. With elbow over eyes she waits,
As hordes of bloodthirsty gnats
throw daily death-bombs
to destroy communities.
Stuffing chunks of oil ore
inside power greedy mouths. They're justifying black deeds by tall speeches.
In the Centres of Learning the resounding claps drown out the cries of dying children. The Earth body is bleeding daily.
Her true children are forced at gun-point
Inside 'Aborigine' camps and 'Red Indian' reserves.
with their toppled gods-
hiding their manhood
with the last shreds of defeat. In the Institutions of Democracy they decide
who to kill next or which country to destroy.
They make nuclear power
from a collection of the best brains,
washed and compressed
in their factories,
so they can kill in masses. The Earth is not well-
they've got in her hair.
With long scalpels they're now
drilling her icy scalp
for more oil reserves. The Earth rest is broken.
She will rise soon
for we've lost her love.
Then as her body stretches up
she will tread, jump, throw
herself about,
In a primeval dance of renewal-
her goddess-corpus rid
of maggots. When after the last wash
of tsunamis and floods
she is perfectly clean,
She will rest once again. New seed will enter her womb
And after her confinement,
She will give birth once more
to a new breed Ready to run all over their mother's body
with lovely kissing feet,
In a new children's world
of innocence and play,
Striking joy in the
once again ripened breast
of feeding and growing
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