holly

Greenville, NC, USA

Susanne Muszala

Hugo, OR, USA

Laura

Simone

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Connect with the Earth through a poetic blessing to cultivate patience, reverence, and inner restoration.

English

If you're concerned about the current state of the world, hold my hand and bless the Earth with me. 

I started writing this poem in my head during an evening walk. The sky was pink and birds flew low as the words came to me. I recited them several times so that I would remember them, and they felt like a prayer. As I spoke, I felt I was one with everything. I felt immense love for this planet and all living organisms, as well as compassion for humanity’s shortcomings. My hope is these words will awaken the same feelings in you. 

My fellow idealists, do not lose hope.

Music credit: Zakhar Valaha

Dear Earth

Dear Earth, if this was a metaphor, you would be our mother and we would be your very young children, still playing war, throwing tantrums, slowly learning what it means to share. I seek the neutrality you embody by looking at the sky and remembering all human stories are just that, stories, and we could be telling different ones if we tried on a different pair of eyes. As I walk on your ground with reverence, I try to make peace with our young minds, thinking we will learn, we will learn. I turn to you, today and always, with only a wish, for I am still human, to be patient like a forest, so that I learn all I am meant to learn and create all I am meant to create before my light goes out. I hear your songs performed by your eldest, wisest children, the wind, the trees, the ocean, and in an instant I am restored, filled in one with the elements, with all you are the children. Dear Earth, I bless you, I bless you and all my siblings, I bless the mountains, the seas, the rivers, all the creatures that inhabit air, land and water. I bless the lungs of the earth and every raindrop. I bless the treetops and all root systems. I bless every leaf and every beating heart. I bless the darkness of our human nature so that we may transcend it. I bless the beauty of our human nature so that we may share it. I bless the lessons you send our way as the most important gifts of our lives. I bless you, I bless us, I bless it all. Dear Earth, thank you, thank you, thank you.