Eco-Friendly
The seagull you chased away
for trying to steal your french fries
leaves hungry,
hungry enough to see how plastic tastes
Plastic made with oil
instead of hydro, wind, solar, cellulose
don’t tell there aren’t options,
because we all know that isn’t true
Alternative energy is too expensive,
have you seen gas prices lately?
While we’re busy fighting
the sun is still shining
but you’d rather build guns
instead of solar panels
It’s not fair to say nothing needs to be done.
The hole in the ozone keeps growing
fed by an endless supply
of pollution, and by burning
the oil we fought for
we contaminate the very air we breathe,
the air we have to live with
and the trees
responsible for replenishing our oxygen
are rewarded with clear cuts
Separating them from this earth
that we seem so intent on destroying
Tress fall to the ground
and you might think it was because
they were like giants who were tired of standing
but that isn’t true.
The tress fall to ground
as if they had lost their balance
swayed by this insanity
we call just business.
And while we waste our resources
the environment we should be helping
is suffering
traveling down a road
that’s so dark
a path of destruction
a path paved with loss
like tar that’s responsible
for taking the place of grass.
When the dolphin swims into the cove
it kisses the sand of the beach goodbye
driven closer to land it has no where else to go,
because the oil spill is already closing in.
John Marsden said
“we kill all the caterpillars,
then complain there are no butterflies”
if only we had listened sooner.
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