Mother Earth and Her Cherubs

Beautiful earth cherubs

looked askance

from perches of mirth.

Rosy cheeks and innocent air

belied the erosive damage

they all were committing

to the sacred Mother

who birthed them

and nurtured their bodies.

Sobbing Mother Earth

lamented as she watched

her sweet cherubs

throwing their trash

on her beauteous land,

using toxic poisons

to fertilize her beds,

washing her fair face

with noxious chemicals,

emptying filthy sewers

into rivers and oceans

cutting her verdant forests

leaving them fallow.

The bereft cherubs wailed

as they realized

the damage they had done

but it was too late.

Mother Earth was no more.