The earth is crying

The earth is crying

Over the influence of patriarchy

Making ‘concessions’

To the wisest of indignenous peoples

With so much blindness and ignorance

Spirit does not only live in some lofty place

It is embedded deep within the very being of nature

Of this very creation

Rocks and air and birds and animals

Seas and oceans

Mountains, sky and clouds

Waves and streams and fire

Songlines wending their way

In accompaniment to the blowing of the wind

The falling of the rain

The murmuring of the ancestors

It lives deep inside our blood

And is embedded in the very sinew and tissues

That make movement, breath and joy

Possible

Put away your bloody ‘liturgy’

Take the pin out of your neck

That splits your head

From your heart

From the rest of your body

You long ago deemed a place of ‘sin’

Your words make me scream

Can’t you hear the earth mother crying out

What will it take for you to actually

Feel the truth

To actually awaken

And hear her plea

From deep inside your heart ?