This is our watch.
However long we’re here,
we’re on duty,
caring for the earth’s wealth,
woes, and wellbeing.
We’re here on its behalf, not ours,
each of us joyfully representing it
to all with whom we share this day.
We’re here to put a human face to it,
to embody it, to embolden it,
and to encourage it to thrive through us
--even as it does so for us.
We’re its spokespersons,
its local guides, its concierges,
its mediators and advocators,
not just to encourage compliance
with its natural rules and organic regs,
but to help each other see it for all that it is;
rarified beauty, sacred splendor,
precious and priceless gift;
font of our future
that, like a giving tree,
loves us with unconditional abandon,
entrusting us completely with its care
--not just one day--but every day,
because every day is the earth’s day.
Fortunately for us,
it never takes
a day off.
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