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ODE TO MOTHER EARTH From the UWA series

I smell your fingerprints on my walls
Like squashed petals of wild roses
You are dropping silently into my depths
Soft crystals of sweet waters
I see those shiny worried eyes
Are you leaving?

I see your footprints over my floors
Countless fragments of broken dreams
Your voice shrills beyond my consciousness
An epitaph of ash and dust
I see those sinking smiles
Are you leaving?

I feel your heart beat on my rhythms
A piece of music in search of notes
Like a strangled symphony of a maestro
You are rainbow over a beautiful nausea
A fulfillment of a gruesome prophecy
Have you left us?

Stan Aneto 2009