The Greed of Man

A spike was driven deep in the earth In a quest to find man's greed Prodded and pricked the earth relents As it slowly begins to bleed The vein they found would suddenly burst As it spewed its liquid gold They tried to apply a tourniquet in vain Only to make it explode Its poison blood would cover the sea And reach to the distant lands But now it becomes a liquid death Caused by man's own hands The fish and birds would suffocate From this sludge that covered the earth The greed of man had come with a price And death would count its worth The tears of men could not wash away The oil that the earth had cried The greed of man now claims its victims As the plants and the animals died