With Earth Day coming up, one of us or many of us might be feeling that we aren’t worthy enough or that we haven’t done much for Mother Earth. If that is you, today I absolve you of everything and revert you to your true nature — Your Purity.

Who am I to think I have such power? I’m a citizen of the world who cares, and this grants me that power. Today, I absolve You; You reclaim You!

A freestyle poem to release you from guilt and return you to purity

Entombed under the charade
Buried nether the ugly things you say ‘n do
Layered below all that bravado
There lays a purity that was born of stardust

… a worthy cause for a celebration …

And as on that momentous day
when you took your first breath
Surprising even you of your new reality ’n
Bravely asserting your existence
Among planetary nebulae

The purity remains undisturbed,
Pristine like a new morn’

… but you’ve been globetrotting,
a lie you’ve been living,
abandoning
who you are.
Return to your source…

Be like water, child of stardust
Change with the energy of The Milky Way
Lend yourself to the expedition
That’s heading straight to the new dawn
Where life flows like a river on a peregrination
Asking us to wake up to who we are

Let go of all your human foibles
Let go and find yourself anew

The gunk you accumulated
Is but a smudge on the horizon
More like a blot on your Sunday shirt

… the crack… that’s how the light gets in. Amen …

Be like water, I tell you sincerely
Be the change your soul already knows
Flow with purity into that river
Baptism of joy awaits your there
Join the choir of the redeemed others
And purge yourself of all the gunge

What lies under the many viscous layers?
Why You —

Beautiful You, just as you are!

Photo by Garrett Jackson on Unsplash

The first Earth Day celebrations took place in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and in hundreds of communities across the United States. More importantly, it brought 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform.

According to Denis Hayes, the first Earth Day 1970 organizer, this is the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people every year.

It’s coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network, and now, Earth Day is observed in 192 countries.

Earth Day 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Celebrations will include activities such as the Great Global CleanUp, Citizen Science, Advocacy, Education, and art.

Earth Day will educate and mobilize more than one billion people to grow and support the next generation of environmental activists. It’s time to reimagine what we can collectively do for our global environment with activities and events. — Wikipedia

April 22nd, 2020

Earth Day this year will undoubtedly weigh differently in our minds.
Today, just in time for Earth Day, we release ourselves from the guilt of being careless with Mother Earth and vow to do all we can to protect her.
We also release ourselves of all the harmful ways we’ve been reckless with our bodies and with our fellow humans.
In this regard, too, we vow to be more aware and reverent of our beautiful life and the life that sustains it.

This is my prayer for us.
Tikkun Olam. This is how we help our world to heal.