Monday, August 8, 2011

what do you do?

What do you do
when they are raping your mother?
Do you stand and yell?
Do you weep and cry?

What do you do
when they are raping your mother?
Do you sit in the corner
and eat cherry pie?

Don’t worry, boy!
We are shaving her head
so all can enjoy her!

Don’t worry, girl!
We are just widening
access to her!

What do you do
when they are making your mother
into the town whore?

What do you do?

4 comments:

  1. I awoke this morning with this in my heartmind, reverberating. It is not only about the San Francisco Peaks and that ongoing rape, but about what I have observed on this planet since I was a child.

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  2. What can I do???
    Set an example???
    To whom??? Who is listening??? Many of us I'm sure feel this and see this but who is actually doing something about it?
    I try to live my life as an example... planting, not cutting and burning, easy on all living things,especially the animals and bugs and all sentient beings that are here with us but I don't think my effort is enough...My vision of the future of our mother is for things to start over again, hence my Mantra: Dear God, Please send the Meteor ..
    Maybe we can get it right if it all starts over again..over n over n over again..
    I feel for San Fran Peaks... you should see what goes on here in in the rain forests of Central America...At least up north you have educated people, supposedly.. Here, combine the need to survive due to world economics, with poverty, and hunger, throw in a large dose of ignorance and lack of education, fuel all that with incentives from the "we are the champions", 1st world ,resource hungry, educated ones.... and watch your mother being raped every second of every day...
    It's Sad, but in my heart I know it is a transition taking place.
    I can't help but feel sorry for the mother, as the human virus eats it's way into her tissues...chomp chomp chomp... Sad indeed...for me that is.. HB

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  3. Harlan, I ap-prec-iate (hold prec-ious) your spirit and your soul.

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  4. what do we do? how can we make a difference? is not buying a season pass enough? does that do anything?! this feeling of powerlessness is the worst... perhaps a bumper sticker will help.
    ~apl

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