One morning the earth found me crying
She said to me 'Why do you weep?'
'Earth' I replied 'I'm in such pain'
'Where is your pain?' she asked of me
'For I can not see any injuries'
I said 'no earth, my pain cannot be seen'
'It is pain deep within my soul'
Earth said 'Tell me, what ails you'
And I did...
'This morning I saw a million graves
Then a million more
I saw wives without husbands
Lovers with empty beds
Children with no fathers
I saw fields of blood that never dry
I heard unending tears of pain
I saw such horrors that I cannot speak of
That is my pain and why I weep
Earth then looked at me and said...
These are tears of despair
They are tears of your guilt
'My guilt? said I 'What guilt?
'What have I done to weep as I do?'
Earth sighed and then said...
'You made the graves,
and you caused a widow's grief
The lover to sleep alone
You have made a world with orphans
It is you who soak the fields with blood
And the unspeakable horror is war'
Earth replied, she too weeping as she spoke...
'You have scarred my body with your hate,
You have drenched my skin with your blood
You made the weapons for war from my flesh
and you have hurt and defiled me since your very birth.'
'How can you accuse me of all that?' I cried.
Earth then looked at me with eyes of steel..
It is not accusation, it is truth that I speak'.
'How can it be, you don't even know my name!' answered I.
'Yes I do' said earth 'you are called MAN'
With that earth spoke no more
General comments welcome
Comments
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How true, sadly man is guilty of all he is accused. This was a well constructed delivery. Excellent
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I'm sorry I forgot to applaud you.
You definitly earned it. -
Amazing!
This will be the last of your poems I read for a little while, for I must dry my eyes and seek joy in the world for too much pain at once will scar the soul. This peice was very well written. The perspectives were great. The dialog was creative. I truely enjoyed this poem. You have a wonderful gift.
I hope that if you're strolling in my poetry garden you enjoy mine as much as I enjoy yours. There are a couple of things I noticed. In the fifth line you have {can not} I think you wanted {cannot} like you have it in line six. Did you mean to say {These are tears of dispair} or {are not}? I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying I didn't know. Again I have to say that this concept and the execution of it are amazing! I love it.
BKB
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