For the Earth
For the exquisite and fragile sphere we live upon
the large blots of green casing the blue of your ocean,
I cherish and pity you all at once
the pain we humans inflict upon you
yet it feels only a select few care.
The shelter and warmth you bring onto us
you’d assume we would return the care,
but in the eyes of many
your worth and work is insignificant.
With all of your grace and beauty
all yet to be discovered
I wish you experienced the love we once gave,
and how the bonds that hold our world together
shatter with you not here.
Twenty-two days into April
we celebrate your worth,
and work and learn to ensure
that you never go.
I adore you.
I hope that within the following years
we will all work towards your recovery.
For you are slowly dying,
along with all your beauty and grace.
I pity you, Earth.
For you have worked far too hard,
shown far too much kindness to us.
In return you gain pain.
Incessant pain.
For the world envies you Earth.
Earth.
Endless amounts of love.
Arduously working towards the better.
Relishing in the beauty that you have.
Tackling the obsticales you are given.
Helping. Us. All.
I adore you and pity you all at once.
For the Earth is beacon of hope and love
and kindness and hospitatlity that is given
by no other being.
Only on Earth,
can we truely ensure that generations will live on,
that your resolution will never spark
that happiness and tranquility can only be brought
by returning the kindness you have given.
To me, you are magnificent.
A phenomenon like no other,
and it would bring great shame upon us all
if you were to fall apart.
For we, and only we
will bring upon your undoing.
For the Earth in such a vast galaxy,
do I wish nothing but for your beauty
and kindness to remain and grow.
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Alexa Profka is a Junior at Dakota. This is her third year as a part of The Dakota Planet. Alexa is very passionate about reading and writing, and...