Without

Front of cave entrance from previous poem, Isle of Mull, Scotland.

Without

1/20/10

We are used to plenty

a security ancestors fought for

after accumulating more than enough,

not day to day subsistence

of many hunter gather societies,

as agriculture created a revolution

which ballooned population needing more

in every territory of life,

land, food, water, housing, heating,

so the Great Expanding began

'taken to extreme' doesn't touch

the scope of humanity's rape,

calloused, hard edged, and masculine,

where the virgin, goddess, crone,

were all buried with matriarchy

yet would not go away

and be banished to underworld,

all the while kept alive

by those who whispered praise

had eyes to see beauty,

her offerings surrounding year long

singing the song of heart,

keeping her teachings in memory,

orally taught like ancient Druids

that understood this interconnected world,

saw cause and effect results

plus fear, insecurity, and panic

infecting humans who were disconnected

living without Mother Earth respect.