Earth Day

Christine Haese
copyright 1993
Earth Day Celebration

                                               

EARTH DAY

Sisters and brothers of nature's clan

share equally this unfenced land

miles of golden grassland

mine to freely roam

Whatever I see

I will call my home.

Oh!  To be crowded

by an audience of silence

and walk a tiny highway

trampled firmly on the land.

I shout aloud from rocky cliffs

with crowds of friends

that gather now to listen

who hear my every word.

Wind!  Blow my name!

Sweep it far away.

Make me the one discovered new

in a shadow of of holiness

and this my garden of pleasures.

Possessed only by a night and day

protected by faith in the sun

I sing now to everyone

Earth is the place I call home.

Quietly now I lay in the arms

of violets and clover

reaching for the Spirits of Heaven

peace has captured my soul.

I understand...

I know who I am...

I am new,

I can breathe,

I am born.