Earth Born Poem by Matthew Holloway

It is like I am the land
The stone cliff edge
And the shale beaches
I am the earth holding roots
Of trees looking out
I face the oceans and the wind
I bare witness the storm
And the savagery of it all
The night and the day
The sun, stars and the moon
I am shore the tide calls upon

And she could be the oceans
The moon and the tide
The driftwood and birds
Which come to settle in time
She brings life and change
She brings the winds and the rain
The sun and the stars
Without her I am nothing
Just the cold stone of a rock

Without her rain and wind
Without her light and life
The trees on my earth would die
Roots breaking the rock beneath
Leaving waste upon my shale beach
And cold in the starless night
I would be nothing without her
For she is my life

I am the land
And she the sea