THE UNTIMELY EARTHY AFFAIR

"Give him back, Mother Earth," I cried.
She shakes her head, "Request denied."
"I need him!" I protest even more strongly.
"You've taken him from me now wrongly!"

Again, she shook her head more slowly.
And to my knees I shunk down lowly
to plea for what I felt I now truly needed.
But she turned away, my sobs unheeded.

But the sky, it opened up in brighter blue.
The earth sprouted flowers of every hue.
Oceans sparkled and waved some spray.
Animals gathered 'round me closer today.

I watched them gather to one by one.
Then split to two by two until it was done.
Each belonging one to another together,
breaking my heart, more alone than ever.

Mother Earth and Father Time smiled
as they opened a portal for this child,
who had learned the lesson of all men,
that love comes from need, is not a sin.

So had this mortal once loved so wrong,
made mistakes picking from the throng?
Mother Earth pointed to a sad daughter,
showing her where lovers often falter.

It was not that I did not love him enough;
or, that I had found loving him too tough.
It was that my heart did not skip a beat
when seeing this lover, when we meet.

Mother Earth knew what lovers did not,
that this affair was doomed to soon rot;
in far fields and flowery beds of others,
not in smiles and hugs of these lovers.

"Give yourself a chance to find real love.
I see it clearer from where I am above.
The earth feels your step in happiness.
Waves know the feelings of real caress.

You'll find something that's really true,
and no mistake in how it touches you.
Who should hold and cherish as one
happens when this wrong affair is done."

So said Mother Earth, witnessed again
by Father Time, this mortal's bargaining.
It hurts to realize others might be right,
especially if a love's already taken flight.

(c) 2002 E'Ullie Fitzhugh aka Rennie Lorca