the land too, is lost
papa would often say
the land always knows you
even when you are lost
it was part of the great
organic being who takes
care of us if we care for it
since the invasion
i no longer believe
in the land, she is hurt
as badly as we are
we are almost
completely gone
soon so will she
This is so powerful. I love this poem! It is such an important message, especially in this time. Great job!
Thank you. I’m doubly pleased with it because it is part of a sequence of a Young Adult Novel in Poems I’m writing & it works within the context of that, but also has a parallel meaning outside of it. x