This earth is my sister

 

I love her daily grace, her silent daring

 

and how loved I am –

 

how we admire this strength in each other,

 

all that we have lost, all that we have suffered,

 

all that we know;

 

we are stunned by this beauty

 

and I do not forget;

 

what she is to me,

 

what I am to her.

 

 

 

(Susan Griffith)