Our Mother Earth

By: Joshua Isham

This mother Earth,

Who give us life;

This mother Earth

Heart filled with stife,

We love her not,

Though love we should;

Her death we plot,

For life’s “own good”

She gave us air, and food, and home,

That’s not enough we humans scream;

With greedy lust our mouths do foam,

With evil hopes our eyes do gleam;

Her air will fill,

With smoke and death;

Ourselves we kill,

For lack of breath;

The sea once clean.

Now choked with waste;

To drink we fear,

Will death make haste;

The soil once pure,

And full of life;

Now barren sand,

Of farmer’s strife;

No longer she,

Can stand our “love”

Now we must flee,

Like scaterred dove;

She gave us all Unto the end;

Now we appalled, 

Our lives defend