COVID & EARTH CRISIS
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ONCE UPON A PLANET IN A FAR AWAY TIME
A fairy tale that unfolded onto the page, through Lorna McNeur, on 31 March 2020
This Fairy Tale is Our True Story
From the Horrors of Our Darkest Days
to The Hope Shining Through Creatively
ONCE UPON A PLANET
IN A FAR AWAY TIME
Once Upon a Planet
In a far away Time
There were plants and animals and humans
Who Lived in harmony together
Loving and respecting each other
And in balance with their Mothership
Planet Earth
As they all grew together
Through many thousands of years
The humans began discovering
How to be very clever
With their hands and their minds
They made communities
That grew and grew and grew
So large that after many more
Thousands of years
There became not enough room
for the Animals of Planet Earth
They also discovered a thing called money
and became so in love with it
That after a while
Nothing but money mattered
And eventually caused Disaster and Tragedy
All over Mothership Planet Earth
CLIMATE CRISIS - FACING THE HORROR
The Rain forests were felled
to make money money money
Gorilla and Orangutang families crushed
The horror of watching their loved ones killed
Wandering bewildered, alone and lost, in the devastation
after losing their parents, babies, families, community
to crashing trees being felled by money hungry corporations
Stealing the Planet of Life giving Oxygen for All
(The equivalent for humans would be to experience
The tall towers of international cities falling upon them
with no warning, help, explanation or support)
Elephant families
watching their Loved ones Slaughtered mercilessly
before their very eyes
by poachers greedy for money
Amazing birds and insects
All the extraordinary creatures worldwide
All senselessly brutally smashed and killed
And other Animals were born into the world
to be eaten by the humans
or to be used for the milk that their bodies created
Animals turned into products
for human consumption
Boys born to die and be eaten
Girls born as slaves to make milk and eggs
and killed when they could no longer produce
The Polar Icecaps melted from the Planet overheating
Polar bears and penguins began starving
And all of the magnificent Oceans
And their extraordinary Creatures dying
from the senseless behaviours of the Human Race
This was Tragedy on unimaginable scales
This once beautiful Planet became so out of balance
That the voracious appetite of ever-growing humankind
had become its own monster
There is a Native American Saying:
‘When the last tree is felled
the last animal killed
no clean water left
and the plants grow no more
In the end
you cannot eat money’
But for hundreds of years
Nobody listened to these Wise Words
of these Wise Peoples and many other Wise Cultures
Who worshipped and respected Balance
of the Earth, Seasons, Plants, Animals, and All
They were also crushed by the money monsters
WAKING UP
But finally one day
Millions of Humans began waking up
to All that was happening
and tried hard to help change
the Crisis of Climate on Planet Earth
They tried and tried
but the Governments
and Big Businesses
Were not Listening
Money was the Leader now
Parts of the World were so dry that
Huge fires raged destroying so many Lands
Floods drowned peoples villages and towns
Earthquakes and Tsunami’s flattened Cities and Lives
The Children then Rose up
They stopped going to school
because they said
Without a Future
We do not need school
All around the Globe
They marched in the Streets
To wake-up Everyone
to Save the Planet
THE FAST TRAIN MONSTER
But still the Government
and Big Businesses
Were not Listening
They were on a Train
That could Not be Stopped
Planet Earth Herself had mines drilled deep into her core
Earth products being sold for money money money
Wars waging between countries worldwide
over these products
And her Beautiful Animals and Plants Being eaten Alive
By the money mind that had taken over the Human Race
The Humans simply could not stop themselves
And many were able to blind themselves
From the horrors being inflicted on others
That were beyond their immediate surrounds
They simply could Not Stop
This Monster that they had Created
THE TINY INVISIBLE BUG THAT STOPPED THE PLANET
And Lo and Behold, as in All True Fairy Tales
Suddenly Something Huge Happened
From one of the tiniest creatures on the Planet
Came a Bug that Stopped All Humans in their Tracks
Nothing but such a Huge Force could stop the Human Race
Nothing but such a Huge - Larger than Life Force
From a tiny invisible creature
Could take All the planes out of the Sky
Stop the Vast majority of Cars
Reduce the Pollution Drastically
Stop the World from going to work
Give Humans time at Home
With their Loved Ones
Catching up with their Selves
and tending to Home and Life
in ways they had been longing to, forever
And the Government paying them to do so
And Big Businesses offering some help & support
HUMAN HORROR
Along with All this also came the Human Horror
Some people feeling lonely and isolated and scared
Fearing Death and Losing Loved Ones
Needing but not having the reassuring touch
and presence of their loved ones whilst in lock down
The shock of the sudden loss of loved ones
Not being able to be with them at their Death bed
In their Hour of Need
Tearing the hearts of surviving Loved ones
The huge death toll - massive mortuaries
in public buildings and tents
to hold many thousands of bodies
Ongoing horrifying struggles
of the war-torn and poorest people on Earth
being hit even harder
than their already agonising lives
In which death
Sometimes felt like a Blessing
All countries on Mothership Earth
Now had the same Invisible Foe
And could not attack back in the usual war-like ways
FRONT LINE SOLDIERS - MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
The front-line soldiers became the Medical professionals
And losing them, could then mean, probably losing All
This was World War III, Like they Never Imagined
LIFE OUT OF BALANCE
Scientists say it is a Deadly Virus
Spiritual Minds wonder
If it is the Dis-ease of Humanity
Brought on by the Horror
of Completely Losing Sight
of All that Really Matters
to Human Beings in Our Hearts
Being in Balance and Harmony
With Mothership Earth
And All Animals and Plants
All Living Together Respectfully
THE BIG SLEEP - Dreaming the Planet
And those who had Homes
Went inside
And those who didn’t
Huddled up in corners
And some went to sleep for one-hundred years
And some went to sleep forever and ever
And became The Ancestors
And they all dreamed of their beloved Home Earth
And dreamed of Her Healing
And the Plants and Trees growing back again
And the Animals Healing
Growing their Homes and Communities again
And the waters cleansing all over the Earth
And the Oceans & Creatures
Great and Small
And some people dreamed poems
About Beloved Mothership Earth*
HEALING MOTHERSHIP - PLANET EARTH
And When All the Humans woke up again
After one hundred years
Behold, Mothership Earth was Strong and Beautiful
And those who were children
Before the Big Sleep
Were now all Grown up in many Generations
And Knew the Wisdom of Balance
In Nature, Plants, Animals, and Humans
Forever and Ever !
Written with Love
31 March 2020
lornamcneur.org
©Lorna McNeur
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* Kitty O'Meara's
now famous poem
touches the hearts of millions
https://the-daily-round.com/2020/03/
Published here with the Author's permission
"In the Time of Pandemic
And the people stayed home.
And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
HOPE OF LIGHT SHINING - GREAT LEARNINGS ALREADY
There is Hope
We are only a few months into this Global crisis
in which All the Countries of the Entire World
For the First time ever in Human History
Share the Very Same Problem
Struggling Equally and Learning from Each Other
Rather than fighting amongst ourselves
Something Very Different is happening
What have we Learned already?
HUMAN LIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY
Governments Globally are following each others’ examples
in implementing changes to cope with the Pandemic
Even from countries with long histories of war and disdain
Governments have made it clear that
For the first time in Many Ages
Human Lives are more important than Money
More important than:
Planes in the air
Billions of commuting cars
Big Businesses Making Money
And people working in offices
The Governments and Big Business have Learned that
They are Nothing without their People and Workforce
They must take Great Care of them or perhaps Lose All
COMMUNITY CARING & ELDERLY RESPECT
The Elders are given respect and priority
in the healthcare and food shopping queues
In Many ways
Crisis is bringing out the Best in Humankind as well
Communities forming to look after each other
Their elderly, & vulnerable members
However and concurrently
If we could only Also Realise
Our Elders’ - Wealth of Life Experience
as Wise Words for Disastrous Times
Letting the Elderly go
in triage formations
Could be at our own Peril
SLOWING DOWN LIVES - MORE NATURE CONNECTIONS
Many people are reporting seeing more wild animals out & about … deer … owl … pheasant ... pygmie shrew !
Creeping out from hiding - maybe feeling safer with fewer humans outside?
People hearing more of the birds singing now because they are not drowned out by traffic noise !
Heard a horse whinnying in the distance today.
It was beautiful :) Our Nature Connections are Growing !
HUGE REDUCTION IN FUTURE FLYING & POLLUTION?
Huge Reductions in Future Flying & Planet Pollution
With billions of people working from home worldwide
and having successful internet group meetings internationally
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET MEETINGS: WAY OF FUTURE?
Companies are seeing that they don’t have to fly millions of people, internationally anymore
But can save billions of pounds/dollars/etc
NOT flying their people in planes all around the world
But can carry on with internet communications and save mega ‘Big Bucks’ too
THIS of course could drastically lower pollution levels and probably help Climate Crisis
SCIENTISTS CONFIRM - OZONE LAYER IS REPAIRING
There are many Lessons Already Being Learned
In a very short period of time thus far
And Many More Lessons to Come
This is Mothership Earth’s - ‘Healing Crisis’
Lets Hope we come out of it Alive
And Ready to work together
with the Plants and Animals
in Healing Our Beloved Home - Planet Earth
There is still so much more to Learn …
What have you noticed so far ?
What Else Are We Learning ?