Dear Mother

Mother, oh Mother, Sweet and dear seen afar unblemished do you appear Slowly you spin in graceful twirls Warm is your bosom to which we cling In our ears softly you sing Heavy are the lids of our closing eyes Deaf are our ears of Mother's hushed cries Every morn Mother waits with out stretched arms and a welcoming smile She fills our stomachs and washes us clean with clear water from the sparkling spring Dear Mother is gentle but her love is tough freely she gives life's lessons course any to hear is one's own choice Listen, oh listen to our Mother's voice Troubled is she for her children she sees are spoiled and corrupt with human greed Those children she loved To them she gave was never enough for their endless hunger to wave The more they grew of her the less they knew Scurrying from here and there Searching for miles to reach the end of nowhere When her wrath did come to her did they look surprised to see Mother so angry From her core she shook did the ground then tremble Above, the sky did darken and cast upon us a storm of hail Calling upon the sea did she make the waters swell soon to swallow the land and us as well The waters that came were not that of sparkling blue but instead a color of greenish brown and carried a putrid smell throughout the town The hail she spat was that of black The tears she poured were of acid rain When at last we saw our Mother plain did she calm her rage and begin to sing with open ears now did we hear the song of our dear Mother's Melody