WALK SOFTLY WITH LOVE

Walk Softly with Love

Catch the wind in the sky

Catch the sunlight that shines

Take heat from our earth

Make our families thrive.

Light our schools and our minds.

Grow the gifts of our children  

Grow them with life   singing and giving.

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Keep our deserts in bounds

Keep our reservoirs full

Make our soils rich

Keep our oceans alive.

Make our wood lands grow wide

Fill our forests and skies

Fill them with birds    flying and singing.

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Let the animals roam

Let the fish swim the seas

Keep migrations alive

Let the butterflies flutter

Grow the microlife   of our earth and our seas

Let the life of earth’s past   lie sleeping not burning

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Keep the mountain tops soaring

Not pushed in the streams

Keep the lakes fresh and blue

Not dammed toxic ash

Use our land for nutrition

Not feeding our cars

Grow Canadian forests to spread cross their land

Not strip out tar sand  cooked for energy demand.

Walk softly with love  on our planet,

Green Earth.

Our cool planet, Green Earth

Cool our planet, Green Earth

Walk softly with love

On Green  Earth                                                     

© David W. Oliver 6/26/09