as the waters rise
and take back
dry land
while the sun still attracts
our planet
as we spin
round her core
and as the layers
that protect us
are vanishing
I sing a song
for this earth
as our friends the mammals
the fish, the bees, the snakes
all sea and land creatures
all things furry and
with legs and wings
in whose eyes
there is a knowing
far deeper than ours
are threatened
in their specieshood daily
their millennial existence
annihilated in our split seconds
I sing a song
for this earth
~Mary Steel 2005
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