Our dying planet

I watch as smoke stacks choke the sky 

But I can’t help but wonder why,

Why don’t the factories even try 

To stop this world of ours dying in this fate.

We need to  find a safer way, a better way

To put our poisonous waste away.

I used to play in a stream as a child, it felt so endless and wild

The water used to be so fresh and clean

It was back then, I used to dream

But now the stream has decayed

The water is black and my dream starts to fade

All the birds have fled the sky.

And I wonder why

Why don’t any of us even try.

I wish there was a clock whose hands I could rewind 

We could have saved our world if we had more time 

Time to make people see what we are doing

We are destroying our earth,

And we don’t realize what it is truly worth 

But now I have hope and I start to dream again.