Why do humans think
Earth is silent
beneath all that stone and dirt?
Why don’t they hear her as clearly as I do?
The whispers of moonlight,
the summons of sun,
the longing of river
and the shout of thunder.
Earth is not silent.
She speaks in every turning of her axis,
every tilting of her hips,
and in the secrets she shares
with the seasons
and in every tectonic shift.
Earth is not silent.
She speaks through weather
and breathes through forests
and she loves through her trees.
She dances in her the oceans
and she rests in her deserts.
Why do humans think
She is so silent
when she has so much to say?

~ Edveeje Fairchild

Beautiful Norway – photo by Andrey Armyagov, bigstockphoto.com