Even Better
Even better
than a plodding 3-toed land-locked
emu is to
imagine yourself the white feathered
egret, soaring
above rivers into skies & clouds
eternal holding
their droplets of dew; no boundaries.
Even better
than the rangeland’s wool-covered cluster of
ewes is to step
heavy into wrinkled footprints of an
elephant, these
giants lumbering gracefully,
elegant despite
their size, with large clear knowing
eyes.
Even better
than racing the clock, saving the world from some
existential
crisis is to prevent the chaos from
enveloping our
world, cloaking the innocents,
eating all
inhabitants in its wake. With
each beating of
our civilized hearts, we
erect barriers
to our Mother Nature, the
earth who
birthed us all. In the name of
energy we are
zapping the sun’s rays hotter,
excrement
filling our oceans, ice caps melting,
ending mighty
glaciers that collapse and crash.
Even better
than waiting for that magical day, an
event that
erases our
errors of the
past, some heavenly formation of the
exoskeleton we
have destroyed, instability
eroding our
ozone no longer, wanting more than an
ethereal gauze
hazing our future, we
eventually need
to face ourselves, to stand
either together
or never again, to rid the
ether of lies
we inhale to hide our truths,
exit the past
of our destruction, join as
equals with our
Mother. Respect our resources,
eyes no longer
eclipsed to the
glorious
eternity we may
offer,
ere this planet
and all on it
ends.
Tansy Julie the
Soaring Eagle Paschold
4.10.24
WD April 2024
Challenge # 10 ____________Better & Write Now #41: begin each line w/ “E”