I AM MOTHER EARTH- Poem by SPIN

[Logikal Ethix]

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I AM MOTHER EARTH

My habitat once housed humans hospitably

Holistically healing herbs grown from within me

But people have ceased respecting me

I mother nature home to heaven

My rich brown colours give life to the blues and greens

Surrounding me.

I WAS IN THE BEGINNING

And WILL BE IN THE END

Like the Afrikan and Indigenous peoples that remained my friends

The ones that knew my soil was never to be sold for dividends

Forests used to abound over me like the big Redwood Trees

That Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Leila Khaled came to be

Warriors fighting monsters like Glamis Gold Mining Company

That is oppressing Mayan peasants in Guatemala while he's raping me

Taking me for a whore making me irate

Some of these children I mothered are full of more hate

Than a thugged out brother conceived during rape

In the midst of a violent earthquake

But even though my anger will make the earth shake…

I am still YOUR Mother Earth!

Why have you children forgotten my worth?

Humanity's hatred lies locked up in a hearse

Of capitalist greed, uprooting sacred olive trees

Keeping the Palestinians on they knees

Multinational demons created suicide seeds

Nina and Billie were right, strange fruit indeed

They have forced me to birth

Del Monte and Monsanto have polluted my earth

And nobody gives a damn so long as my veins bleed

Can't you see? A woman with no womb IS a fruit with no seeds

Fanon warned you that the Wretched of the Earth are being exploited

Tortured and murdered while my lands get eroded

From all the oil being sucked out from under Iraqi & Nigerian soil

The elders have warned you that you reap what you sow

Now the harvest of misery is starting to flow

My tsunami hit from South Asia to Somalia I grow

Impatient, my children's picking coffee beans on the plantations

Making pennies for themselves and thousands for the corporations

This indignation, deforestation brought about through colonization

Has me begging for resuscitation

SO...

Iraqi liberation fighting the U.S. occupation

HOLD YOUR GROUND

Palestinian children hurling rocks at Israeli tanks

HOLD YOUR GROUND

Dr Vandana Shiva, restoring my seeds to their reproductive state

HOLD YOUR GROUND

Children that have not forsaken me, your blessings abound

Look to your past, the ancestral cultures have found

The secrets to happiness in the lessons that surround

You in your everyday lives, the animals and plants

Speak a love language far removed from the traps

These devils have laid at your feet

Afrika please don't weep, karma will creep

Into the homes of those who sweep

Over innocent lands with their Cherokee Jeeps

Polluting the streets, fresh soil turned into hard concrete

These blessings and warnings I speak

Are entrenched in my roots of history so deep

The very core of my being has started to weep

Tears of saddenning joy, so much of me has been destroyed

Yet so much of me is being rebuilt,

So many of you are riddled with guilt

Not knowing what to do with the burdens I lift

On my back fighting to preserve the dignity of our past

Warrior cultures, and subsistence farming,

Now the pollution levels are alarming,

My veins are being drained of blood

But I still feel nothing but unconditional love

For all my children who are fighting this corporate sinning

I leave you with the words of an ancestral Inca warrior singing

Through the voice of the world's most prominent rapper winning

The youth over with his poetry

May Tupac Amaru and Tupac Amaru Shakur rest in peace.

"In this game the lessons in your eyes to see

Though things change the future is still inside of me

We must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark

So you will always be in my heart.

With unconditional love"

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