Gaia's Dream

The Goddess dreams:
     they swirl like clouds
     of dark matter
     filling cosmic emptiness
     with something unknown,
     but profound.

Her children have long deserted her
     to create new,
     invisible gods
     with commandments
     more lenient,
     less stringent,
     absolute and terrifying,
     than hers.

We poison her seas,
     foul her air,
     soil her earth.
     We strip her foliage,
     kill her beasts,
     plunder her resources
     with no thought,
          no thanks,
          no care.

The Goddess dreams;
     a violent dream
     of punishment,
     of decimation,
     in which she waits
     in barren, airless splendour
     until her time is,
     again.