An ode to Earth...

Happy Earth Day!

Seeing how Earth Day is over soon, I thought I would share this poem I wrote some years ago but just reading it again ignites those same feelings...like I wrote it yesterday. I love how poetry does that. Its like looking at a picture except the words are the picture. My sentiments remain the same and I'm blessed to have eyes to see the vision God has crafted before us. I pray it's beauty never fades and we continue to help grow it, flourish it, and never grow tired of the art it is.

Dear Earth

O sun

How it radiates my face

Let each ray illuminate my skin

Ignite the awakening that has been long coming

I am now a new creature

For I have shed old flesh

Alas, sorrow is no more

I am no longer gripped

With the pain that shadowed me

The sun has blessed its light upon my face

I am free

O wind

How it whispers sweet breaths past my neck

Allow me to recollect on its touch and gentleness

Your breeze is never too much yet barely enough

Our unspoken harmony is too perfect for even the birds to sing

Your presence is liberation unto my soul

Your air is honeyed like bright blossoms on a noon day

Every piece of me is revived

Restoration has begun

And I am alive

Lush green gardens fulfill my breath

Mediterranean waters yearn for my soul

The Himalayan Mountains await my arrival

But alas, it is Africa I hear crying out for me

Come child she calls

Where do I go when I hear the earth calling my name

To the soil where creation birth forth

As the mud paints my hands

The voices of ancestors spill before me

Their tongues never sleep

The very sound makes me fluorescent

And I am made warm by its essence

O, the glow I have taken on

As bright as the moon amongst the darken night

My God, have I grasped a hold of happiness by accident

Hurt fails to hover over me

It does not chase me anymore

I am but joyous

The Earth has embraced me so

Like a mother to her first born

She has placed me to her bosom

I am eternally hers

She is the sky

And I her cloud

God is made proud in this moment

All that is his

Has found love in one another

In the end, we are all gifts

Designed to celebrate each other

Though when I lay my eyes on this majestic mother we call earth

I swear by it

I have never laid eyes on anything more beautiful than her