The greatest friend mankind could wish to know <br />The food we eat out of her bosom grow <br />Her lakes, wells, streams and rivers our drinking supply <br />Without her waters we would quickly die. <br /> <br />She is our friend yet we treat her as a foe <br />And scant respect to her we seem to show <br />We bulldoze her woodlands after cutting her tall trees down <br />To make way for another concrete town. <br /> <br />Her children are all creatures great and small <br />And she is the greatest mother of them all <br />Yet due to mankind she seems the worst for wear <br />And for the one that feeds us we don't seem to care. <br /> <br />She's been around for millions of years before the birth of man <br />And from her bosom all forms of life began <br />And she has the power for to regenerate <br />And the poets and painters her great beauty celebrate <br /> <br />We are her children and to her we belong <br />And in her honour I have penned this song <br />And in the Seasons there is death and birth <br />Of the green Goddess we know as Mother Earth.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mother-earth-11/
