“make a wish” poem by Roger Evers

make a wish

Earth

has its day,

has its say:

8 billion humans

chronically out of balance,

dizzy now from the viral vexation,

wonder what’s next,

what normal is morphing into;

please, tell me what you see.

molecules arrange,

re-arrange in the cosmic stew,

the river flows,

the hawk hunts,

the rain falls,

the tides roll in

and out,

the great cycles unfurl

forward into the mysterious;

indifferent evolution at play…

* *

4.54 billion years old,

what a tale it tells us all

about survival and inevitable change,

about the vanities and ghosts of the past

and about the inevitable riptides of the future.

yes, the earth

has a birthday,

has its say,

has its way

come what may….

* * *

earth day, april 22, 2020

(make a wish)