Challenge
Write a myth, based upon the one thing that inspires you EVERY single day. A myth is usually telling the story of how a natural phenomenon came to be, but you can also create your own. Inspire those who read your story. Write in any style in 100 words.
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Mother Earth and Her Cherubs
Beautiful earth cherubs
looked askance
from perches of mirth.
Rosy cheeks and innocent air
belied the erosive damage
they all were committing
to the sacred Mother
who birthed them
and nurtured their bodies.
Sobbing Mother Earth
lamented as she watched
her sweet cherubs
throwing their trash
on her beauteous land,
using toxic poisons
to fertilize her beds,
washing her fair face
with noxious chemicals,
emptying filthy sewers
into rivers and oceans
cutting her verdant forests
leaving them fallow.
The bereft cherubs wailed
as they realized
the damage they had done
but it was too late.
Mother Earth was no more.