Island Creek, KY
Peggy-Maw’s Mountain
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
MY PAIN begins early with thunderous noise from big machines.
MY PAIN gets worse as the day continues
As my insides are blown apart and
MY PAIN grows as the big machines move
Scooping up my insides and dumping
Them over what is left of me.
I can only silently watch as I’m being destroyed
And with the silent cries of MY PAIN
I realize I am dying.
I scream for them to stop but they do not hear.
I give them hints of MY PAIN and death
But the mudslides and dried-up streams go un-noticed.
I hear the men laughing and their jokes about how much of me
They’ve moved and shoved today and as to how much of my insides they
have hauled away. I CRY…
MY PAIN becomes intolerable as I die knowing that to them my death will mean nothing.
Tomorrow they will move on to another to inflict their pain, destruction and death.
Written by: Brenda Urias as told to her by A MOUNTAIN
March 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
The screaming agony of your rape, mutilation and death are being heard! I often wonder, also, how loud are the cries of our God who created our beautiful mountains and all creatures that live upon them as they are being destroyed by that most beloved of all His creations–MAN? How He must rue the day he created the first Man. For thousands of years, men have argued over the semantics of God’s awarding humans dominion over all the Earth. I know in my heart that by dominion, God did not mean exploitation and destruction of the our planet; but instead, He wants us to live in harmony with the Earth and the Earth/God spirit. The whole Earth IS our Garden of Eden and we have destroyed that garden through evil and greed. It is time to stop this destruction!