Oh earth,
What is happening to you?
Day after day your body is abused
And your sagging tits no longer
Drip with thick milk. Your scarred belly
No longer holds the promise
Of tall sons and fertile daughters
Bursting forth from those hidden
Places from which all bounty emerges.
We have accepted without question
Your endless gifts, arrogantly believing
We can sup forever at your battered table
While we gorge without ceasing,
As if mothers are meant to be ignored,
As if all we desire will flow forth
Forever.