You expect me to embrace the cities of this world
that are made up of cement, concrete and brick
To embrace them in a truth that they are more
important to my mortal's being than a forest filled
with magnanimous trees, a vast desert or a beautiful
blue ocean
To embrace them as if their beauty were more mystical
and magical than the glorious gifts that Mother Gaia
so generously bestows upon us
Before you ask this of me, I ask you to look out
your window
I ask you to see and feel the flowers, touch the bushes,
hug the trees, listen to the birds sing, watch the
butterflies fly, feel their life that courses through
their veins
Can you see and feel how cold and lifeless your life would be
without these flowers, trees, bushes, butterflies and birds
in your everyday earthly existence
Can you see and feel now how much beauty they truly behold
and how much they give to your earthly existence
Even if you still can't see and feel their true beauty or
true value in this world, and even if you told me not
to embrace them in their true beauty, I would still
embrace them in their true beauty and ignore
your false malaise
For Gaia's gifts are above all and in all,
and no one could ever convince me otherwise
You expect my eyes to see the superlative skyscrapers
As more beautiful than the earth's mighty mountains that
reach up to the sky with their heavenly peaks
that can hold us all in their arms with beauty's embrace
Well then I should tell you, so you don't think otherwise,
that when I look at the great mountains of this world like
Mt. Orizaba in Mexico
Mt. Elbrus in Russia
Mt. Fuji in Japan
Mt. Tamalpais in California
Mt. Kailash in Tibet
Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa
I get a feeling of true awe and mystification that is
beyond mere word's description
So do not ask such a foolish thing of me, for I would rather
go blind before this untruth could ever have time
to set in my eyes sight
You expect me to sit idly by while corporations poison
the waters with their wasteful excrement
Sit idly by as they poison the waters
that are the lifeblood of the earth and us
The lifeblood that flows through our life in the forms
of creeks, lakes, rivers, oceans and other
wondrous bodies of water that link together the
earth's regions, like the blood that links us together
Do not ask of me such stupidity
nor ask of me to accept such stupidity
But do accept, that as a denizen of this earth,
That I will ask the following of you
For you to stop putting your chemical wastes into the
waters and to stop poisoning them beyond retrieval of
their once pristine state
So that we can once again have their waters as pure as
they were at the begin of time
You expect me to see zoos as a wonderful place
for animals to live
Places where they are caged in a limited space
to be fed at your will
When it is not your true will of call at all on
the matters of where they should live or when
or what they should eat
So I will ask of you this, I will ask you to look
into the caged animal's eyes and tell me what you see
Do you now see as I see, see the difference from their
lifeless stares that come out of them from behind
the bars of their cage, compared to the alive look
in the wild one's eyes of their brothers and sisters
who run wild and free on this earth
Do you now see as I see, that by placing them in a cage
and taking them out of their natural habitat and rhythms,
that you are slowly killing them
Killing them in that cold and heartless cage that they
did not ask to be placed in to be put on public display
and amusement for us humans to effortlessly enjoy
whenever we want
Do not ask this of me, to callously come into your way
of thinking
Your way of thinking that sees the animals who walk
on this earth as a life of lesser importance than
you or I
You expect me to nonchalantly accept that it's okay for
you to run a sweatshop and employ people like slaves
with no soul, in the atrocious fashion that Nike does
Who employ people with their slave labor that encompasses
wages that could not even feed one person on a nutritional
daily basis and a schedule that breaks their back and spirit
in two, leaving them to feel less than what they really are
You expect me to buy these products that are made off of the
blood, sweat and tears of my broken brothers and sisters
backs
Do not foolishly ask this of me
Do not foolishly ask of me to embrace in my mind the
epitome of stupidity that you hold in your mind's
untruth that we are not all created equally
Do not foolishly ask of me to see any of my sisters
or brothers that walk upon this earth,
as less than I or you are
Because I am deeply embedded in the wise truth that
we are all created equal and that it is your
inadequate feeling as human beings that cause
you to run your workplace in such an appalling manner
You expect me as a woman to sit quietly under the
patriarchal ways that have been imbedded into our present
way of thinking
You expect me as a woman to repress my sexuality in an
acquiescent manner rather than express it in it's true
passionate ways that emit from my sexual being
You expect me as a woman to lie down and subordinately
accept lower wages for the same work you do as a man,
rather than fight for equal dollars for equal work
Do not, because as a woman of this world, I will not sit
quietly by and accept the present inequality of the
sexes that has been bestowed upon me without my consent
of being
But do expect me to accept that like you, as a woman in
this world, I too I am entitled to a life of freedom to
equally pursue my dreams as I wish, in this world where
all were created equally - both women and men
Because, as a woman, this I can accept
by savvy-11/19/2000...
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