I write to you not hoping
you will forgive us,
I know that will take much more
than a poem for that,
but I do hope, dearest mother
that you will come to understand
our collective mistake,
why in our adolescence we turned away from you
It is perhaps unimportant to know when
we first stepped away;
perhaps like any child we became
fed up with your authority
and assumed we could make our own,
and so we belittled you,
subjugated you to our abstract
and childish conceptions
But the magnitude of our actions
outgrew us, and what was once
a type of innocent non-awareness is
now a total blindness,
we cannot see past grandiose ideas
of our own significance;
we pursue a new car or big screen TV,
we chase fame and fortune
and forget you, reject you
we do not see the cost;
that we work dead jobs,
buy dead things,
speak dead words,
live dead lives
and the pain of this absence of you
in us causes us to come
to you in only way
we know how anymore;
uninvited, like a desperate lover
we push into you,
close our ears to your cries,
leave as quickly as we came
so we do not have to see
the damage done
And so it must be
that when we hurt,
you hurt
and though I have been taught
to be numb,
I know now when you hurt,
I hurt too
and I will cry out our pain
along with the bleeding forest until
the whole world cannot help but hear,
until the whole earth turns around
and screams with me
Author notes
Ecopsychology, what a wonderful thing I have found in you.
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Jesus Glenn, sometimes your petry is fucking awesome!!...like this one. And I think you should submit this to Poral...do it!!
love Gary, loved the poem by the way -
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hmmm yeah alright, maybe I will gary. thanks for the nice comment man
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this is so powerful Glenn - i love all the dead repetition and the lines about hurt...so true..wonderful poetry.
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thanks tara!
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ahaha this is great, I feel our conversation at jack point has a hidden face in this poem. I think the last two stanzas are by far the best... I will critique you, because apparently I can't just like all your poems
I will say it feels a like a few things could be cut down a bit... well not really, but kind of...
Anywhoo definitely can relate to this due to my background in enviro soc
hahaha and I think it is a great poem! I love "bleeding forest" that was great too.
See you in the hall soon my friend, while I wait outside of the bathroom for you.. hahaha
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