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Workshop # 8
Mother Earth

O Mother Earth !
you give and
you give and
you give and
you give
asking us nothing
in return as
you are the mother
the giver of selfless love
and we - the children
the rightful recipient of your love.

Your children
the human race -
we take and
we take and
we take and
we take
giving you nothing
in return of what we take as
we are your children -
the plunderers who are blind
and you are the mother -
the plundered who is kind.

Looking at your plundered
and sorry state today
I wonder why, on earth,
did you not ask us
at least one thing
in return of your abundant love.
Why did you not ask
the same selfless love
(that we received from you)
be returned to you
by us in the same measure
as we whole-heartedly took.

A selfless mother of
selfish children....
haven't you failed us as
a mother ?

(c) Meenakshi Madhur
May, 2001

Workshop # 8
A Passion of Love by Seema Banerjee
Arid Boundaries by MaryAnn Harrison
Earth Is… by Pavalamani Pragasam
Heart of the Oasis by Joseph Allen Hardy
Mother Earth by Meenakshi Jha
Nature Unfolding by Maria Reed-Shore
Prithvi by Susan Giles
Sanctuary by Maria K. Kaeble
The Gift by Uma Parthasarathy

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