The Destruction of Gaia

Coughing,

Gasping,

She pleads.

Burning,

Blazing,

She chokes.

Melting,

Thawing,

She drowns.

"Gaia," they say,

"What has become of you?"

"Gaia," they entreat,

"What can we do?"

Moments pass, 

thoughts churning,

Gaia responds, "Love me again."

Silence.

"But why did you stop?"

She cries,

"Why did you fill me with filth, 

deforest my lands,

pollute my oceans,

exterminate life,

defile my beauty?"

Frozen, 

They stare,

Pondering,

Is their existence worth the devastation humanity has wrought to Mother Earth?