This poem is a call to awaken to Earth’s enduring power and life’s resilience. It reminds us that life has survived fire, ice, and storms, and now humankind faces a choice: to protect, nurture, and honor our planet—or to let it suffer.

A tribute to the Earth’s strength, and a challenge to rise with it.

# When Earth Began to Speak #

Listen—
before your stories,
before your gods,
before a single human dream took root,
the Earth was a monument of fire.

She cracked open in molten thunder,
lava spilling like the first red language
she spoke into the void.
Mountains rose as if remembering
some ancient oath.
Oceans hurled themselves against newborn shores,
teaching the world how to breathe.

Life crawled forth—
shivering, soft, improbable.
A whisper in a storm.
A spark asking, “May I stay?”

And the Earth—
rough, raging, beautiful—
answered with a rumble:
“If you endure.”

So life endured.
Through ice ages sharpening their blades,
through meteors that dimmed the sun,
through nights so long
you could mistake them for eternity.

Still, green returned.
Still, wings unfolded.
Still, paws pressed the soil
like small prayers.

And then came you—
humankind—
with minds bright enough
to rewrite the sky,
and hearts fragile enough
to forget why it mattered.

You stand now
where eras divide,
where futures tremble.

Look around—
the winds are teaching,
the rivers are pleading,
the forests are asking the question
only you can answer:

Will you be the healers
of the world that carried you,
or the final storm it cannot bear?

Because the Earth—
she remembers every scar,
yet still offers you her open hands.

She asks only this:
Choose the light.
Choose the life.
Choose the flame that began everything.

For if we rise with her,
she will rise with us—
and together,
we will write the next dawn.

(Vijay Verma)
 www.retiredkalam.com

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