22 April
A day for Earth
Earth needs more
But this day will celebrate blue and green
Land and sky
Water and oxygen
And that’s good
We need these
Good to be reminded
The villains will eschew
Hide in dark offices
Under the glare of artificiality
They will glare
Undoing the planet
Fracking off the layers
Mismanaged draining of oil
Allowing poorly valved
Pits of natural gas
To explode
Believing plastic washes away
Far from the profit margin
Until
We cannot drink the water
Cannot trust the rain
Forests are gone
Notre Dame cannot be rebuilt
From ancient timber
What we have has not grown tall enough
This is the world
It is ours
What have we done
What will we do
Answers to questions
They are there
Ask the scientists
Ask the faithful
Ask the Earth
It knows
It’s always known
Not to say it’s sentient
I don’t know
But it is impulsive
Knows how to react
Knows how to share the virtue
In recleansing
Another world won’t save us
This is what we have
C L Couch
“Earth seen from the Moon” by Petr Ginz.
Petr Ginz – http://personalstoriesfromtheholocaust.weebly.com/petr-ginz.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37616368
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