Mother Earth's Lament
Once I was beautiful, gleaming and bright
My oceans glimmered in the broad daylight
Trios of trees swayed happily in the breeze
While birds flew through the sky with ease
But now my body quakes with fear
And atrocities before my eyes appear
What horror! What horror is this! I cry
The skies are polluted, my birds cannot fly
My oceans are filled with the blackest tar
This strange new world is so bizarre
My once happy trees have been butchered and killed
For frivolous houses humans seek to build
I struggle to survive as I gasp for breath
I know I am on the brink of death
I fight and I fight and I will fight some more
But at this point what am I fighting for?
The people are guilty and don’t even care
They turn a blind eye to my woe and despair
My life is slowly draining away
Veins run dry and bones decay
Soon Death’s cold hand will slowly descend
And the world as you know it will eventually end
Maybe on that dark, cold day
Someone will finally wake up and say
What have we done? We must fix the Earth!
But by then it will be too late.