Mother nature you look so weary and sombre
If I feel that I could make you glow and cheer
We would all feel happier and so much stronger
Mankind would not exist in this perpetual state of fear
Today I felt your falling tears of acid rain
Wading chest deep in your plastic choked rivers and seas
Next to your sublimating ice-caps in the midst of your sunburnt pain
This beautiful earth is standing gasping at your knees
Your good animals are running terrified and scared
Your forests deadened with an awesome sullen silence
To imagine that no one ever really dared to care
To see your globe with it’s endless roads to violence
What’s for the table’s filled with sugared fats and salt
Making us ill from rich to poor in terms of health
I see you frown from your window at our planet’s fault
Watching wise men and wizards playing for pots of enormous wealth
Mother nature when you were happy we were complete
In your mood don’t feel so worried nor feel upset
Now there’s nowhere to dance and nowhere for us to meet
Remember that we had great times that we could ne’er forget
So from your far-off universal cosmic platform
Look kindly on our rocky planet’s crazy style
Please make your disdainful world a place we can reform
And wise men and wizards will make you smile
© Sean P. Ransom 7/6/2020