One Earth

One Earth July 29, 2015

earth and heavenWhen the birds are gone

Will we care ?

Will we sit outside

And mourn the quiet ?

 

Will there be

A sense of loss ?

Of missing beauty ?

Of Nature diminished ?

 

Or will we merely

Go inside And turn on the TV ?

 

When there are

No more animals

And we own the earth

What will we do ?

 

When the wind Is no longer

Soft and warm

But a raging monster

Tearing off roofs

And whipping fire,

Will we curse Nature Or ourselves ?

 

And, when the oceans die

And we own

The stinking cesspool

And the earth

Is a giant landfill,

Where will we go ?

 

Mary de La Valette

July 2015


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