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Second Birth
Don Hynes
Second Birth
The Earth is lonely
for the tenderness of our hearts,
to how she persists
though her body trembles,
her vitality buried in our waste.
Turned in upon ourselves
we fail to notice
she is not an object,
rather sentient, yearning
for the compassion
we may yet release
from the tomb of our disregard
as she awaits the second birth
of her dearest children.
Don Hynes