Autumn's Message

The leaves fall like snow

Orange and gold trinkets

Back to the earth,

Winter whispers "I'm coming..."

But not before the decay

Revitalizing the land for the next year,

The squirrels gather their nuts,

Birds fly away to warmer homes,

Rebirth, renewal

A reminder to let things go.

I feel a melancholy saying goodbye,

To the trees that gave me shade,

And the flowers I watched bees polinate,

The colours of October will fade away

To the grey and white December days

But I will always dream of autumns tapestry

And wish I could fly away like the dancing leaves,

Back to the earth...

Someday, we all will become an autumn day

On the precipice of the frost giants and eternal slumber,

I can only hope I made a difference in this world

The way the falling leaves made to me. 

I am worthy

My curse came suddenly

But really it spanned 

My entire existence,

Unknown to me

I've been going in reverse

Holding myself up to some standard

I can never meet,

My worth should not be based on my ability

But we live in a society

Where we value others because 

Of their income,

The size of their house,

Or by what society has deemed as pretty,

I am worthy to be here 

I deserve to take up space.

The Emergency for Urgency

The west is burning 

It's a climate emergency

Yet they bail out oil companies

And animal factories,

Ripping down ancient forests

Trees older than the oldest human being

To put in golf courses

So the wealthy can live the dream,

How far have we come?

Or rather how far will we fall? 

While the world's on fire

And glaciers are melting 

People and animals are dying

But there seems to be no sense of urgency,

A worldwide virus wasn't enough? 

Catastrophe upon tragedy,

Mass graves finally uncovered after decades

Even though indigenous people have been pleading for generations, 

They were children! 

Sons and daughters of innocence

And someone needs to pay,

Burn the churches,

And their crosses,

The Holy don't burn babies

They forced me to confess my sins

But those preachers can't express their own,

Government reconciliation means nothing

When inaction is all we see

Lowering flags is a symbol

Not change, not what we need,

There's still no clean water on many reservations

But we can build pipelines through their land

Priorities are twisted

And we need to shift it,

Will resolution ever come?

Will they ever put the people over profit? 

We live in a capitalistic nightmare

But have they forgot? 

You can't eat money... 

And mother earth won't be ignored. 

Nature Queen

I'm friends with the trees

The flowers and plants are my sister's

And our friendship grows each day,

I belong with the ocean

Or near her shores

My roots grow in the sand

And the waves swallow me whole,

My feet are roots

Tethered to the dirt

Creeping their way deeper and deeper

Beneath the surface,

The sky is my future

But also my envy

I wish I could fly like my birds of a feather

Soaring over the mountains,

The lakes, rivers, brooks and streams

Fill my cup when empty

Washing away the grief

Reminding me to keep moving,

The moths and butterflies

Spiders and beetles

Are brothers of another world

Living in tiny forests

Droplets are pools to thee,

Giant footsteps

Please tread with care

"We are here" they whisper,

The burning stars, the planets spinning

Galaxies of far off mystery

A universe vast and unending

Reminders of how small we are,

Just like those ants you crush

We are microscopic to the moon, 

The Earth is my mother

Every animal my brethren

The nature Queen is

Never lonely surrounded by my family. 

Lifeforce

Deep beneath the earth
Life runs limitless
Not just worms or insects
But a force
Connected to us all
Our ancestors
The people we envy and those we seek
Bones, fossils and dirt
Nourishing the trees,
Growing our lifeforce
Infinitely
The plants we eat
The foliage that heals
Beneath canyons
Between fields
Deep within the ocean abyss
Life is everywhere
Every root connected
In perfect synchronicity
Through life, comes death
And so the cycle begins again
You never die
You just become something new
Nourishment
Renewal
Energy
Maybe it is just the beginning
And we are mere illusion
A dream within a dream

Dorian

Hurricane candlelight
Dimly coats my apartment walls
with soft reflections
The wind howls
And the rain pounds

I find myself deep in introspection

My favourite tree fell to its death

Down she came like a hammer on a nail

Crushing the fence lining the playground
I could hear birds in the centres eye
Cry

Perhaps for their lost home
I imagine the shoreline is rough
Surges, 10 foot waves
Crashing rocks and boardwalks

Dorian's forces
Felt halfway across the world
Devestation felt near and far
Mother nature shows no mercy today
And I can't blame her... 
Climate change deniers
Should feel her wrath
But their excuses are great and immense
While the poor have to pick up the pieces
Until water fills our streets
And it's too hot to breath
Storms angrier and more frequent

Deny all you want 

It won't change the inevitable

You can't eat money

And you can't drink oil

The earth will have the last laugh

As she spits on your grave

Written September 7, 2019

Sink or Swim

Lay back

Or stand

Wishes seem cold

Like selfish corridors

Brined with sinister smiles

She bathed in pools of apathy

Fostered in some thickened fog

Murky waters didn't stop the longing

Sink or swim 

She chose the latter

Soft and sweet

Hard and bitter

Tasteless and grey

She still enraptured the world.