At the Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum on 3rd Friday, April 15, 10:30am-2pm, at Kamayan-EDSA, the forum session practically on the eve of Holy Week this year, let us join our hands and join our hearts in an act of Contrition and prayer for atonement along this 11-year-old global Poem/Prayer of Earth Synergy (translated into over 15 languages, first prayed in unison in six countries during Earth Day 2000, and repeated every year since then).
A Giant Leap for Humankind
For Earth Synergy
in the new millennium
nations of the world
come together as one,
in body, mind and spirit,
to stand in reverence
before the rest
of the bio-diverse
citizens and elements
of our living planet Gaia,
to take full responsibility
for past and present
environmental destruction,
and to lovingly commit
a conscious synergy of efforts
to rescue and heal,
conserve and exalt
our Mother Earth.
.
This is a giant leap
for Humankind
right back to the bosom
of our home planet,
undoubtedly a euphoric
historic event
that heralds
a new way of life
for all Earthians,
as we enter the new
millennium.
Amen.
Written by a Filipino environmentalist in October 1999; translated into Bengali, Danish, Filipino, German, French, Japanese, and Swedish, before Earth Day (April) 2000. By now the translations number about 20. A multi-nationality solemn ceremony, called "Handshakes and Hugs for Earth Synergy," was created along with the poem and centered on the sharing of personal responses to it and a chorused recitation of It. Versions of this ceremony have been held in at least six countries during Earth Day 2000, and in more and more places during commemorations of Earth Day (April 22) and World Environment Day (June 5) all these past years. Usually just recited in unison, "Amen" can best be sung, along the Spirit of "Sing Out (our Love, Peace, Joy) 2011", now on its last preparatory month.
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