A Tender, Verdant Domino

How could I change the world? How could I make it change?

How could I rearrange

A universe, a world of mistakes and scars

Of falling suns and burning out stars

I saw it in the far expanxe

My loss of time, and loss of chance

It’s too late, the answer I can’t find

But now, right here I see me waves crest

Filled with discarded waste, and plastic mess

More material found in the element we ride

Than in my long-board’s foamy spine

There is too much to change

And too much beauty to save

But if I were able to tilt the first domino

I would plant a see and let it grow

I’d fill my hills with shoulders of arms

With fruitful limbs and little farms

Where the relationship between creature and land

Would be equally pure – why is this hard to understand?

A Father gave us this earth, for us He did create

A place we could love and take care of and keep safe

Here we grew and here we learned

To build homes, only set fire and let them burn

We sought refuge for this isn’t our permanent home

And yet we leave it scarred and scathed to the bone

But if I could plant on little seed

Would I grow peace – instead of the gread?

I’d teach all the children how to love in return

And not just deplete or burn and turn

I would teach them how to be scientist and how to caste nets

I’d teach them how to build farms and become vets

The children should grow strong and proud

And teach their children, to teach and know how

To coexist in a great big world

To love all the creatures, all the boys and girls

But if I could sew the seed of change

Change the world, the stars could rearrange

I would try to leave this world a little better than how I found it

I’d find beauty and try not to surround is

The aesthetics of an environment are highly ignored

But a greater respect is what I’d push for

I’d leave nature natural

This theory is factual

That this little domino can make a big change in some of our flaws

If we’d only tread lighter on the earth, like other creature’s paws

This world was given to us, but we still must share it

We should love our neighbors and try to care for it

If just one seed was to make this turn

We’d have jobs to work and children who’d learn

We’d have pure land and food to fill between bones and skin

We’d have full stomachs and fuller grins

We’d have independent, proud countries and creatures

We’d have healthy land with natural aesthetic features

We’d have better surf and clearer tides

We’d have clearer days and bluer skies

Our resources might be cycle and steady

A sustainable world, is it ready

To make that change and plant that seed

For long, happy lives – don’t you see the need?

This is what I’d plant – a sustainable seed I’d sow

One little push of that domino

And I’d teach my children to learn

And I’d teach them to grow