Mother Earth

The Earth birthed me with

The soft white snow

Of an angel

I fluttered gently to her

Beneath a wintry sky

I used to laugh

Laugh like a twirling snowflake

And sleep to the lullaby

Of her swaying pine trees

She laid me to sleep

On her bed of soft tundra

She always cushioned

The child of my past

But I

Was blinded by a white mist

Of naive devotion

And I began to fall

From the gravity of her

Disappointment

She muddied

My white wings

Because I refused

To become an extension

Of her frozen lakes

Her skies enraged

With storms

That dragged me

Into her molten core

To shatter my bones

Made of fragile icicles

She erupted with

Explosive volcanoes

A flurry of ash covered hands

Dirtied my crystalline heart

My childhood melted

Faster than snow

Her soot

Stung my eyes

With gray images

Streaked by the blurred colors

Of a blue and red siren

The screams of bruising skin

Scoured valleys into my ears

Her twisted love is coated

With layers of warm sweetness

It melts on my tongue

Leaving behind a

Hollow aftertaste

Of bitter hatred

My limbs

My bones

My heart

Freeze with fury

At her deceit

Her inflamed wrath

Set my wings ablaze

I bleed ice

From shards

Of broken promises

I've learned

To grow frost

Over open wounds

And shoot frozen shrapnel

At her torrent of accusations

I am a fallen snow angel

Ravaged

By Mother Earth's blizzard of ash

I crash to the ground

To dream soot stained nightmares