Earth Mother Speaks
If I could save the animals
And all the little children—
If I could save the wetlands
The streams rivers lakes
The loamy soil and sandy dunes
The rain forests and northern woods
The airstreams curling around
This blue sphere
I would. I would save them.
I would feed them and love them
I would embrace earth’s children
The earth and all
Of its living creatures.
If only I could.