GAIA

 GAIA

Karen Lewis

The goddess Gaia walks along the lakeshore

Thru remnants of the forest that she planned.

In the heat, she is losing her powers

And angry fires rage across the land.

The goddess dips her hand into the water

The once-cool liquid now a tepid green.

As the lives wink out below the surface

She cries to us with every voice she can...

CHORUS

Bring me back..

Give me back

Loose me back

My powers

For every fish that swims beneath the water,

For every creature walking on the land,

There were once many more in her keeping.

But we have taken much that was for them.

She plants a stand of trees to breathe her life force.

All knowing we may cut them down again.

Still she tries to replenish her garden.

And calls to us that we must do the same.

CHORUS

For power we have raided every storehouse

For power we have torn up all the land

We have burned the preserves of her ages.

To do the work we would not do by hand.

She tries to hide our excess in the ocean.

She tries to slough it off upon the wind.

Hear her cry in the sound of the tempest.

She's calling us in every way she can.