Earth Day!

Earth Day!
Earth day’s today!
Let’s Celebrate!
Start your cars
And drive irate.
Don’t care for less,
Pollute some more.
No time to guess,
Global warming: lore.

Earth day’s today!
What is this mess?
I call it Earth
(and why digress?)
What once was beautiful
has long been lost
To Cyclops kittens
and low, low cost.

Earth day’s today!
But fish are dead…
And trees and birds,
All things we dread
to lose, forever-"No fault of mine."
Don’t think of nature as divine...

“I just don’t care,”
Too many say.
Let me do my hair!
Delay, delay…

Those quick to employ the “cannot act”
Might not know just how tightly packed
The human conscience seems to be,
Cuz’ all we know is "me, me, me."

Sacrifice is soon to come,
And corporations hold the greatest sum,
of the blame that's to be had,
That feeds our needs where greed succeeds:
The greed we hope is ‘just a fad.’

One day we’ll see,
We’ll all find out,
What this short life was all about.

The time: too late,
It’s all been done.
No discovery left,
No battle won.
We now accept our way of life,
Destructive, gross, and full of strife,
No change be had!
Destroy! Consume!
Denial’s here to drive you mad.

It takes much more
To change the lore:
Centuries pass,
We still ignore…

Earth day’s today!
Not week, or year,
Few people know,
Or care to hear,
The cry that earth
Sends out in fear:

“I’ve warned you time and time again,
Just keep it up,
I won't say 'when'!
And, by the way;
The heat is real!

Stop warming all my ocean shelves,
the permafrost, the pretty trees!
You’re surely going to kill yourselves!
Your way of life brings such unease…”

But slower still,
The earth will burn,
And no one’s stomach will even turn.

Smell the air.
Today’s the day!
Hold back the cough;
Your lungs obey.

One time a year,
No globe unites.
We do not fear our dismal plights.

Let’s work on that.
Less talk, more act.
Without huge groups,
The solution’s ‘wack,’
So try to think of ways "we can."
Ignore the drive to be a fan
of all the products made by man.

Media is one way that's best
to force denial in this great mess,
but it can also be your tool
for making oil way less cool.

Try real hard to find a way
or reason why we have this day.
Make it your own,
go out and play!
Earth day’s today!
Get off the phone...