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An Ode to the Earth

Steadfast Angel in the sky

You guard me like a giant North Star

Bigger than any object up so high

And bigger than the Sun and every star


Dazzling display of colors

Green, white, brown and those vast blues

Streaks of gray, like feathers

Their spiral formations make me muse


Your crescent phase makes me wonder

Why I am the object of comparison for lovers

Monotonous white phases I offer

No match for the beautiful phases you deliver


Comfortable you keep your resident

I get too hot in the day and too cold during nights

Shade from the scorching Sun for hours you present

I can repay for a few minutes; then from humans I get slights


No experience of seasons, rain and snow

Or of the water flowing through rivers

Bored of those Sunny days and starry nights

Feeling jealous for I have water only in craters


Have watched your changing landscapes,

Catastrophes, nuclear explosion and Amazon fires

Global warming a reason the brown portion enlarges

Humans welcome as guests not as colonizers









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