On this day :
1968 Dr King is assassinated, 1776 Washington begins march to New York, 1933 Man who took NASCAR mainstream is born, 1865 President Lincoln tours Richmond, 1949 NATO pact signed, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated, 1933 Dirigible crash kills 73, 1841 President Harrison dies after one month in office, 1918 Second Battle of the Somme ends, 1949 NATO established, 1960 BenHur wins 11 Academy Awards, 2013 Legendary movie critic Roger Ebert dies, 1928 Maya Angelou is born, 1913 Muddy Waters is born, 1843 Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born, 1841 Harrison dies of pneumonia, 1865 Lincoln dreams about a presidential assassination, 1982 Gretzky finishes season with 212 points, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr speaks out against the war, 1975 Operation Baby Lift aircraft crashes, 1918 Germans and Allies step up operations near Somme, 1884 Yamamoto Isoroku Japans mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack is born,

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O Mother, How Have You Become?

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O Mother, how have you become?

Why is it I sense your forests numb?

Where are the trees which cooled your body?

These towers of cement make you look so shoddy.

O Mother, how have you become?

Is this because of human infection?

Where are the others who lived here before?

Rhinos, tigers, deer and more?

O Mother, how have you become?

Your green spots, why are there none?

These yellow and grey patches, why?

Look at your condition, you make me cry!

O Mother, how have you become?

Who was once so happy, why is she so glum?

Hear this noise, and look at the smoke,

Where are the morning fog and the frog’s croak?

O Mother, how have you become?

Where are the trees of apple, orange and plum?

The humans have placed you on a hospital bed,

How long will it be, before you are dead?

O Mother, how have you become?

You are not what you used to be.

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