Mother Earth Poem by Megan Anderton

By Megan Anderton
(Authors note: I was born with a Bi lateral cliff pallet)

I was born a child of Earth, placing my loyalty before her
Promising her too be gracious once I lived upon her..
To one day, be returned original
When I was developing within the womb fire..
Something went wrong.. Not sure what …
I was born alienated, disoriented, feared by my reflection..

For 16 generations of my being on earths surface,
It was like living in darkness, because all elements
Hated me, were ashamed of being seen with me..
For the shell of a body, I live in…
Than on my 17th day year, I received a gift…
It was a gift from the water god triton…
He sent one of his sons who were similar too me
Into my life…

I was petrified by this… who thought possible…
He looked right at me, with the same notion…
No words needed….
Anger rose in me, why now…
I don’t need this… so I walked away
With my chin high.. It was weeks before
I did so again…
It was his doing, he welcomed me in with a way out…

He knew I was the leader, of this kind, who weren’t our kind,
But I was like there mother of understanding and feeling.. Still am…
He didn’t need me for that, he needed the opposite,
But I wasn’t sure if I could, I felt the signs
Of our elements forming a unbreakable bond..

He was calmly entering my inner world, helping heal…
Growing grass land with his rain fall…
Filling the emptied banks, with his waves…
Returning the animals, too the lands,
For a drink from his river or lake…
Retuning the sea critter too his oceans
Too my empty water masses.

He sees me, the way no one does..
When my father died, the elements who tended,
Said I didn’t I wasn’t aware of what happened,
And I would be okay…
No I’m not… I miss him dearly…
I was returning erupting

poem written: October 7/2009