Daughter I tried to follow the old ways. The paths of the
Great Mother and the Bards. There were no temples of stone in the green lands.
Groves of beech and ash and oak were good enough for the walls. When the sun
shone clear the roof was a thousand shades of green, gold and blue. And when
the mists came no one was sure where this world ended and the Otherworld began.
Perhaps we had less freedom than your world offers, but we
had a place in our families. If there was food and drink for some there was
some for all even if it was only bread from the good earth and clean water from
the streams. Our bards told the old stories so that we knew who our families
were and the stories of the God’s and heroes.
Now, I watch through your eyes and I grieve. The sacred
groves where we sang our songs and celebrated the wheel of the seasons are
gone, fallen to the saws and bulldozers. The green is gone, the skies are
glowing brass and the clouds bring no rain. The grasses that welcomed our steps
are burned and brown. What the Mother created to feed her children men breed to
withstand their poisons. The water we could dip from our streams with no
danger, you must filter, boil and treat with chemicals. Your land is dying and
what it grows kills. You sing no songs. Your bards are as silent as your skies
and seas.
Daughter, listen to your heart, try to learn the old tales,
rediscover the paths I walked and the songs we sang. Live for the children of
the earth, as we tried to live for you.
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