Can earth be Earth?
Can earth be Earth?
Can Earth be Earth when all it's trees are hone
And sudsy waters have become unfit
And poisoned life no longer greets the Dawn.
With raucous sounds that death has caused to quit?
Will trees no longer wave, with limbs unfurled
On hapless earth, that ever in orbit roams?
Will human ego sacrifice the World
To satiate it's Lust for pompous homes?
Will distant space look down or orb that's bald.
I now can heart the mother saysay
" I was once called Earth
But now, bereft of mith, I weep
That treeless orb's no longer Earth. "