Gold of the Earth
Don Hynes
Many voices, often with contrary points of view, are writing about the ownership and location of the Earth’s gold. I don’t have the breadth of knowledge to contrast with any of those debating, but I would add that there is a gold, a true gold that no villain can touch, being ignored in this debate. I realize I will seem naive to those articulate in this complex area but I offer this simple point of view as a way of including what the Earth might think and feel amidst all these claims of thievery and righteous ownership.
Gold of the Earth
How sweet you are after the rain,
moisture beaded like luminous pearls
the color blue as if it had never been
so warm and inviting the lift toward open sky.
The clouds will return, winter pressing in
from the broad ocean with swells as high
as the dunes that rim the coast
yet each moment of intimacy is ours
each breath and release,
each brilliant stroke of light,
this life a privilege no one may possess;
we emerge, we experience and we expire,
the treasury of all we’ve loved and lost
what we add to the gold of the Earth.
Don Hynes