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The Pulse Of The Earth – A Poem

June 6, 2025

The Pulse of the Earth is poem dedicated to World Environment Day. 

Over the last decade, I have straddled two passions – sustainability and personal development. Connection Compass was born as I have come to see much of sustainability as an external band-aid. The wonderful work being done is critically important and meaningful, but I feel it’s not getting to the heart of the issue – the disconnection between humans and the natural world around us. 

I feel what’s being called for, energetically, is a coming home to nature. A remembrance of who we are and where we came from. From that place, there can be healing and taking action – inspired action that is driven from reverence and remembrance, rather than fear and scarcity. (Although I’m the first to admit the current situation is a lot of be fearful of.)

So instead of the call to action this World Environment Day, I am offering a call to remembrance. 

The Pulse of the Earth - A Poem for World Environment Day

The pulse of the earth,
flows through the bounds of time.
Unrestrained.
Remembering when we were at one.
When we knew our place.
When there was no separation from man and nature and life itself.
The ebbs and flows of the seasons honoured and fully embraced.
We knew what to avoid and what would sustain.
We understood the signs,
and knew our way by the stars.
We were in tune.

Now we have days like World Environment Day
because we no longer remember.
The connection is severed.
The earth is hurting.
We are hurting.
Trying to fill ourselves with meaning.
Never quite suppressing the urge
that calls for more and more and more and more. 

Missing the daily miracle of sunrise
reflecting colours that we try to recreate in our man-made ways.
Yet, never quite succeeding.
We have forgotten
what it is like to be complete in the witnessing of a butterfly’s gentle wing flap.
All we can do is try to remember
By placing our feet firmly on the ground.
And feel the pulse of the earth,
Flowing back up to us,
Just as it has always done.
Unrestrained.

 
~By Cherie Pasion

 


Cherie Pasion

Cherie Pasion is the founder of Connection Compass, a practice grounded in listening, lived experience, and reconnection. A certified life coach and behaviour change specialist, Cherie has run award-winning behaviour change programs helping thousands of people across Australia. Cherie holds a Master of Social Science, Bachelor of Business, and Diplomas of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing). Cherie is also an internationally-published author.