Dear mother Earth

dear mother earth


can you hear me?


has old age captured your ears?


can you see me,lost in this 'over crowd',?


over six billion souls,all crying out loud




Groaning about deep pains


screaming about the plains


The soil lies bare,it grows no harvest


what happened to the green years?


what happened to bounty days?




we have angered you,we have spat you in the face


what happened to all you taught us?


about peace

about unity

about love

about morality

about justice....




we have made our own rules


we have built the best bombs,better guns


we have exhibited the best 'art of war'


we have wounded poor souls




enslaved the innocent,torn down mighty heights


emptied wasted blood into harmless seas


left it blood red


suffocated little sea creatures




dispersed tree birds,pulled down their homes


enslaved elephants,enslaved poor ants


fought against every JUST thing


adopted new cultures of greed,lifestyle of vane


fame & sugar cane wealth


we swin in blood money


oh it tastes like honey




looks at us,look what we've turned into


animals,dirty filty animals


carnivorous beasts!


we no more prey wild animals


our brother's flesh is now a better meat


his blood the wine of our feast




we have snatched them their home


starved them


taken their little homes


left them naked,here in the field cold


displayed them on the BIG screen pretending to care




we have discriminated our brother


on the bases of skin tone & colour


bases of choice & belief


place of birth & origin




we have OVER explioted your crust


emptied large oceans dry


diseased the air,left it lifeless & helpless


we have torn down ozone's blanket


we want it no more




what happened to happy marriages


now is all happily divorced after


what happened to men marrying women


now its men marrying men


what happened to honest,hard working youth


now its weak,lazy,restless fools


what happened to nature and purity


now its all sand & ashes,dark clouds of gases




you have plagued us in your anger


with your rushing tears of FLOOD


angry pump of tsunami blood


heartless HEAT of warth


dry skin cracks of earthquakes



poundin head volcanos


cureless scars of cancer


painful curse of AIDS


heavy sigh of storms


bald grassland,and hungry sad band


sad crying faces,sorrowful music for the babies




where really are we?


we are lost & forgotten in this place


tommorrow we shall leave you


we are going to MARS


to start a new life


good bye mother earth,we disown you today


(c) okafor makuochi