Instructions on Not Giving Up https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving |
The green skin
The green skin spread out late across this world
The seas already teeming - it isn’t natural
To live under the sun - those rays
Those drying winds
The Green began with algae forming humps
Of jelly on the shoreline, washed by waves
And pulled by tides under a drawing moon
Then there were liverworts
Not yet with stems or roots
Like curly flapjacks in the shadow at the waters edge
And later others came with leaves
Releasing spores and wind borne seeds
Then trees, climbed mountains, spread across the plains
And in a breathe of geological time
They’re making forests, jungles, flowers
And birdsong , jaguars - and bees
but this is not our element - and we have left our home
We’re water babies - but now needing air
And live like spacemen that cannot return
Anita Greg 06/05/2020
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