Mother Earth Poem by David Levitas

From out the hidden store of Earth, comes life,
To take the seed, and from her depths make strife,
With all that try to force it from her hold,
And steal the joy, she gives with love untold.
In swollen pain she bursts with labour long,
Upon a world that's raised with all that'a strong,
To let all feed from breasts which never dry,
Unfolding heat that grows to touch the sky.

But Mother Earth, it clasps its own in death,
To all who reach beyond her milky breath;
With sighs and clasping strength, it draws its kind,
And to its hollow bosom seeks to bind,
In cunning greed which passion cannot break,
Upon the dawn when restive feelings wake,
To snap the stem which hold what's hers so near,
Unfolding like the fruit beyond its year.

Set free, the bird will fly, the ivy creep,
The fox run through the night, the tiger sleep,
The rose will bloomimg rise to fall,
And every manchild grow 'til he is tall,
No light will steal the golden sun's arise,
And love will shine until the moonbeam dies.

And Mother Earth, in grief she spins and weaves,
To stem the flow that from her body leaves,
With outspread arms which stretch to hold the sun
And seek the joys that reach for everyone.
In fledgling freedom life soars beyond pain
Upon dew tipped hills and bare mountain plains,
To taste the sweetness that of earth's begot,
Unfolding love, that Earth has now forgot.