Tales of Transformation: The Earth’s Axis Moves
Seasons are shifting and Nature is growling and growing sharper claws
See the barbed wire, the tall gates, the high wall T’was my too-trusting nature, brought about my fall I’ve been held down, been so long enclosed But now look, who’s shaken off all slumber and arose Pleading and placating got me nowhere At times, I even played dead Anything, you know, to avoid innocents’ bloodshed.
Tricked, gaslit, and worked near to death I was approaching my very last breath My creed was always neither a master nor a servant be Why then was I brought to my knees? Life stirs as Spring sap grows and my blood boils We are at the point of the sixth mass extinction Who are so stupid, that they poison air, sea and soil? Who will end the Whyte ghosts’ greed-based wars? Now we welcome all of Nature’s Life-asserting claws.
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The season of Spring does not feel normal here in the U.K. The skies have been an unremitting grey for weeks, and the spirit feels heavy, even though the daffodils are blooming now. I will leave the reader to interpret what my poem is about… except to say, it attempts to blend the personal, the political and the global.
Meanwhile, I alighted upon and want to share Dr Fatima’s poem below. She reminds us to see beyond the obvious and notice the undercurrents of feeling that need to evoke our compassion.
This title of the poem below, reveals just what it is about — a lesson in providing the courage to let go of a bond with a person, or a dynamic in a situation, when persevering makes no more sense at all. Thank you, Shireen Bingham.
And thanks to Sahil Patel for the notification of this prompt. This morning I had no intention of writing a poem but this invitation, suddenly sparked the words above.
