SHE IS SPEAKING

After all our shameful waste 

and distorted planetary distaste 

did we think she’d just sleep

and oh so silently weep

with pollution in her hair

and failure to treat her fair;

we’ve abused her offspring 

killing livestock akin to a tyrant king

and destroyed her arts

with our decapitated hearts.

Why humanity, 

we called this calamity; 

she nurtures our every creation 

and we dismiss her relation 

but our veins know of her reigns

so now she’s risen 

to free us all from this prison 

of inequality and frivolity, 

while on our stage they fight the craze 

but it will pass as we fly half mast 

to her impearled new world 

that’s already unfurled.