A View From Orbit

Our world, a marble, blue and white Around it stars are shining bright I see the deserts and the seas and vast patches of green trees Below, the vapour from a plane and over there, a hurricane Mountain ranges white with snow look like wrinkles way below The oceans shade from dark to light All this you see from this great height And as the world turns far below I see great cities start to glow Like misty galaxies of starfire strung out like diamonds on a wire I even see the blood red flare of a volcano erupting over there And as the world turns again to day on the Earth's rim far away a thin blue line stands out clear the pale transparent atmosphere So many of mankinds great ambitions produce waste and vile toxic emissions There is no place that they can go They are trapped and build up slow This fair Earth which we all inhabit with daggers of pollution we stab it We must have hope and keep on trying to stop our world from slowly dying This is our only home you know There is no other place to go Untarnished places are getting fewer WHY must we treat it like a sewer??