CRUST OF THE EARTH


The crust of the earth is moaning: "some dead you have buried in
me are stirring, twiching, groaning; longing for their sea."

The earth then told the story of the many men laughing so free;
"they lived their lives upon the foam to be buried in the crust of me.

Some were buried on rocky planes, some under grasses so
free; but now they are crying with dust in their mouths ...

'the sea, oh, the sea.'

They're saying; 'the land is full of pain, of
hate, of robbing, of killing insane ...

but oh, how the slap on the ground by the rain reminds us of the sea.'"

"So now you know", said the wrinkled old earth, "the story to sad
to be; of the long forgotten, muffed in dust ...

forever away from their sea."

 


Jim Brennan

circa June 6, 1960