Auntie Earthling's Vow

I am never, ever gon live on Mars.

Y’all can go out there.

I’m doublin’ down on Earth. F*** all the outer space rest of it.

(Can you imagine what them tickets gon cost?
Not to mention what spaceship Economy class is gon look like, or,
worse yet, the place me and mine can afford to live on Mars?)

While my feet are planted firmly on sweet ground,
what to do next got me almost confound.

But little bits of this New Earth vision say, “gon on girl; take the vow.”

… I vow to love this Earth from which I come

… I decree and declare the planet’s health is collective wealth

… I pledge to nourish my life-support system and revel in the ways it nourishes me

… I vow to fight for a body that’s right with the Earth.