Ode to Mother Earth
by Apolinario Villalobos
Looking back when time began
God said the words
Giving life to all
That He desired,
The endless expanse of the void
Was filled with motley specks
That moved with harmony –
A prodigious task
Of the Almighty.
A tiny dot in the universe
Mother Earth throbbed with life
As God made her a living sphere
Covered with green and blue
All part of God’s grandiose plan
Done in a few days of divine toil,
Though, He rested finally,
Being satisfied at last
On the seventh day.
Out of a handful dust from her womb
God made Adam, by such name he was called
And with God’s breathe of life
What was once a lump with limbs
Has become like Him in image
And let to roam the Garden of Eden.
But then, loneliness soon had its toll
Which when God has perceived –
From Adam’s rib, He made Eve.
Alas! Mother Earth now nurtured
Not only lesser creatures
But the pair that God made
In His own image;
A paradise, Eden was supposed to be
But to it, a serpent found its way
Tempting Eve to have a taste of ecstasy
And, no sooner than she did have a bite
She made Adam commit the same apostasy!
The blunder made by Adam and Eve
Instigated the misery of Mother Earth
As they opened the floodgate of afflictions
That soon blemished her once pristine face;
Greed and selfishness, for long led lives –
Cain putting to death his own brother Abel
And many others whose names are written
On the sacred pages of the age-old Book
And all it needs is for us is to take a serious look.
And it is so sad,
As warnings that Mother Earth belched
In her effort to wake man up with a jolt
Did not budge him even just a bit…
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