A Love Letter to Earth
. My love for you knows no bounds— Not even Everest could rise high enough to stop it. The dense green of the Amazon, teeming with life, May seem impenetrable— But I would walk its depths without fear, for you. The Sahara’s searing sands may scorch the skin, Yet I would brave a thousand storms of fire and dust Just to reach you. The oceans, with their secret depths and mythic creatures, Churn and swell— Still, I would swim every fathom of their turquoise sorrow, And weather every storm that crashes down. If I could end your suffering, inch by inch, If I could restore every part of you that we’ve destroyed— The trees, the air, the water, the soil, The birds silenced, the beasts vanished— I would do it a million times over. For our greed knows no end. Man’s hunger is a bottomless pit. You bear the pain as long as you can— Until tsunamis rage, floods swallow cities, Earthquakes rip the crust, And sickness sweeps across our kind. Pandemics have come, and gone— But have we c...