What happened when we all stopped

a poem by Tom Rivett-Carnac and narrated by Jane Goodall

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IT STARTS as a whisper A word on the air, It can’t quite be heard But you know that it’s there.

As gentle as sunlight As tenacious as hail, In it’s route to the heart It could not but prevail.

And the people looked up From there day to day tasks, Their day to day jobs And their day to day masks.

They heard or they felt Where the whisper could lead, And they looked with eyes wide At what they might mean.

And once they could see it They hadn’t a chance, To resist the sweet song Of the deep spell it cast.

But the feeling it bought them At first glance was pain, As they lifted their eyes On the land they had claimed.

Since they saw at last as if raised from a dream,

They were almost alone on the land and the sea.

For the trees had almost gone and the bees had almost gone And the creatures in their shells by the seas had almost gone And the people felt sad as they saw their new earth But they knew this was it, one wild chance for re-birth.

BREAKING NEW GROUND, seeds rolling down Smell of the earth on your hands and your brow.

No time for sorrow, we’re building tomorrow The sound of things growing now keeps us around.

As the wildness grows and the deep wood grows And the sense that the future’s come to meet you grows.

There’s no chance we can rest, we must do our best This moment can lead us back home, that’s our test.

IT STARTS with a whisper A word on the air, It can’t quite be heard But you know that it’s there.

It then spoke like thunder until we all moved And we could, and we did, and it’s done

She’s renewed.