{"id":385,"date":"2026-05-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:29:09","slug":"mother-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mother-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did you do this to me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You cut me open<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And use my blood to pollute me further<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A thick smog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like wool over my eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t see any longer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My waters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They run deep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But so do the scars you have given me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You pour your waste in my waters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You dump oil in my streams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You put debris in my oceans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you maim your siblings as you do it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They struggle against plastic muzzles in the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poisoned food in their mouths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You hurt me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And your fellow species<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I will forgive you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again and again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Mother Earth is patient<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is gracious<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She loves her children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if this keeps happening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be no more Mother Earth to forgive you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&nbsp;<em><u>will<\/u><\/em>&nbsp;be your fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did you do this to me? You cut me open And use my blood to pollute me further A thick smog Like wool over my eyes I can&#8217;t see any longer My waters They run deep But so do the scars you have given me You pour your waste in my waters You dump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[110],"tags":[111,37],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}