Exquisite, Excellent Earth

I yearn to wake to radiant verdant forests,

But three soccer fields of trembling trees burn every minute.

I yearn to breathe in fresh, clean air,

But the skies are replete with smothering smoke.

Earth is constantly crying,

Its pristine waters dirtied by our touch.

Us, sinister humans lying,

As our planet suffers so much.

Water tides consume everything, everywhere,

Houses sink with the ravaging deluge of rain.

Native animals suffering and becoming rare,

Our essential ecosystem, collapsing in vain.

Weather patterns change,

Continuous rain relentlessly pouring down.

Wild winds turn strange,

Time to return to mother Nature – her crown.

Graveyards of bleached coral,

Wondrous sea creatures slowly dying.

Yet still, we escape the grasp of the moral,

We must act now, or it is too late for “trying”.