Mama Earth

While she slept we plundered.
Clever children, we thought. We are getting away
with murder.
She stirred in her sleep, sending up
earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and drought.
Did the dinosaurs know this fear?
or even those before, that she didn’t bother to record?
Mama Earth can take care of herself.
It is only we who will die.

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