Earth Take Your Time

By Jack Joseph Smith

With no needed human harp to excuse thyself in dignity, Earth take your time for you will have to leave our yearning And if in your crevice you shake slightly; just before the endless reality is done with containing Perhaps you will remember in your peeling distance, that the mutual madness of your creator and creators, also had it rougher than circumstance

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GPT

The speaker asks Earth to take its time before leaving human yearning behind. The speaker imagines a final tremor and asks Earth to remember the mutual madness and hardship of its creator and creators.

The speaker gives Earth a farewell address while leaving the identity of its creators open. The appeal combines dignity with the possibility of being remembered at a distance.

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The poem addresses the Earth: 'Earth take your time for you will have to leave our yearning', and asks it to remember that 'the mutual madness of your creator and creators, / also had it rougher than circumstance'.

Speaking to the planet as to a person, the poem asks for patience and shared sympathy rather than blame.