sweet mother

Sweet mother
Sirens come from so far away
The little string sings
My life pulls me between two extremes
The life of a lover and the life of a writer
Nothing makes a mission out of me
Here at the end of the universe
Millions of gallons of oil
The earths life’s blood
For all we know
is plummeting into the sea
my mother was violent
I know about violent mothers
And a violent mother earth
Scares me
Blacked-out-skies
And dead fish and nothing good to eat
Is frightening
I want to save the earth
Not because she’s a delicate dragon fly
But because her brute anger
Will destroy us.