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\nAnd listen to the forest that breathed life into your ancestors’ lungs.<\/span>
\nStand still,<\/span>
\nAnd admire the fury of the sea that has nurtured life and taken it all the same.<\/span>
\nStand still,<\/span>
\nAnd feel the rumbling of the mountains,<\/span>
\nAs a sense of awakening gently simmers within.<\/span>
\nYou\u2019ve burned down my trees, poisoned my soils and polluted my skies.<\/span>
\nTaken advantage of me like no other being.<\/span>
\nSo know my nature is not of mercy.<\/span>
\nWhen dawn is near and the stillness of the night is disrupted by the seeping sun,<\/span>
\nmy oceans will leave you on your knees,<\/span>
\nAnd my mountains will give you just enough time to repent,<\/span>
\nJust before my forests breathe back the breath you once borrowed.<\/span>
\nMy clouds will not weep for you,<\/span>
\nThey will announce their victory in thunder.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n