Earth to Earth <br /> <br />Oh to be as still as the lily pads <br />Floating in the billabong <br />And as idle as the upturned boat <br />Across from me beyond. <br />If I was a creature of this habitat, <br />In the sun filled Australian Bush, <br />I'd like to be that water hen <br />Who is never really pushed <br />But skims around discreetly <br />And only calls out if she must. <br />I'd consider being a dragon fly <br />And I'd frolic in the sun <br />Like they're doing over there; <br />Sometimes joining with another <br />Over water in the air. <br />I could be a Kookaburra- <br />Now that would be great fun: <br />When I'd laugh I'd take a pleasure <br />In startling everyone. <br />It would be lovely to be a Lorikeet <br />And feed on nectar and on pollen, <br />To be a pair forever <br />With your parrot lover <br />And to gather with the others <br />For a chatter on the trees <br />Just before the fall of night <br />Before we'd go to sleep. <br />I wouldn't want to be the wallaby <br />On the other side of the fence <br />Who lived incognito over there, <br />Under cover by the trees so dense <br />For now that part of the Bush is bare <br />But the developers don't care; <br />And he's living on the edge in fear, <br />Who once I stalked, <br />Hidden by the dew dropped grass <br />Just in case that he'd appear- <br />Which he did, inside a clearing <br />And looked at me and loped away; <br />A ride on mower was busy there today. <br /> <br />The silence of the billabong is brittle- <br />Only broken now and then <br />By the screech of a galah, <br />The warbling of a magpie <br />Or a ‘kak' from the water hen again; <br />I look across the pond and far beyond <br />And I can see how ‘earth to earth' <br />Makes some sense after all- <br />Since I feel so much part of here <br />I could go on to be forever young.<br /><br />Matt Mooney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/earth-to-earth-2/
