September 12, 2013
A Distress Call from Planet Earth
600 million people watched, their mental boundaries stretched
As Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a time in history etched
In that giant leap for mankind the astronauts had seen
A splendid visual spectacle – ethereal and serene
Filled with awe they looked around seeing blackness so intense
Choked with sheer emotion in every moral sense
For in the midst of darkness they saw their planet Earth
And experienced nothing short of a spiritual rebirth
An awesome forlorn beauty – A jewel in the sky
Witnessed by 3 earthmen as they looked and wondered why
This fragile lonely planet was crying loud in pain
Complaining about CFC’s and even acid rain
Sending out an SOS she said we must act quick
With Climate change which threatened her she felt disturbed and sick
The ambulance might be too late unless we act in haste
With Carbon footprints every where there is not time to waste
If you were an astronaut and went to outer space
And watched this tiny world of ours from some celestial place
A vantage point I’d call it for you’ll see the world as one
Not continents or countries where wars are fought and won
In our narcissistic quest to escape Malthusian fate
We’ve waged a war with Nature and hope it’s not too late
To salvage what we can in this toxic plastic land
For our planet is in peril and it’s time we took a stand
Our deserts are expanding, so is the Ozone hole
The permafrost is melting – we have to take control
Belching smoke from exhaust pipes - it’s time we pulled the brake
With Green house gases on the rise we have a lot at stake
“An inconvenient truth” it is - we have to pay the price
As pointed out by Al Gore when he offered sound advice
Let’s Reuse and Recycle cause we don’t have time to borrow
And if you don’t believe me watch “The Day after Tomorrow”
Our planet is in dire straits – Let’s make it clean and green
Let’s tackle global warming and make our world pristine
Let's plant more trees and dredge canals and make the change we can
Let's clean up all our oceans – where all life first began
The Earth does not belong to us – We belong to it
The acrid deadly haze of fumes have made the earth unfit
Our Ecosystem's crumbling while our forests disappear
Though we blame it all on Rio with words so insincere
Let’s save the only home we know or else we will be blamed
By all our children’s children who’ll say the earth we’ve maimed
We’ve reached a point of no return – there is no Planet B
Or soon we’ll end up writing Mother Earth’s obituary.
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