Giants
We live among women so brave
Giants on this earth
Whose determination to protect land
And the people growing food
Surpasses fear and ridicule
Surpasses being satisfied
With lives of comfort.
Arundhati Roy
Who did not stand by silently
While Coca Cola robbed her homeland
Of its water base.
Vandana Shiva
In all her fierce and radiant beauty
Creating a movement of people
Guarding the sanctity of seed
Against Cargill, and Monsanto
And all the madmen whose greed
Demands ownership of plants and land
She will not stand for this.
Wangari Maathai
Who saw her homeland de-forested
Blowing away in the wind
Began a movement of women
Forbidden to own
The land they loved
Planted trees, to save that land
To save the Earth.
In defiance
Beaten and jailed she is unstoppable
Each seed saved carefully,
Each garden grown,
Each small farm cared for and loved
The forests re-emerging.
