Earth still
gives up her gifts,
sweet fruits of every kind,
and we
still test her patience,
as if she doesn't mind.
But mothers
have their limits,
as problem children find
when their demands, once always met,
are one day
marked
declined.
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Author Notes
Many thanks to Lorraine Purviance for her beautiful artwork depicting a fairy picking fruit in an enchanted forest.
People, sadly, depend on real trees grown with real soil and water in real air. How many more years of our mistreating and wasting these resources will it take before those trees decline our demands they feed us? Happy Earth Day, all :-)
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