A Beautiful Island ?
On this beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea
The seagulls are flying and a whale I have seen
Yet still there is the sound of the petrol machines
What are we doing us human beings
The green lizard lies on the warm rock face
The sun rises slow it's hot on my face
The faint smell of diesel rides on the Breeze
It's settles on the leaves of an old olive tree
The wild yellow flowers bring a joy to the new day
The soft flying butterflies glide and they play
But there is hammering and banging of metal on rocks
It shocks, it shocks, it shocks
A red robin lands and gets his prize
The gecko on the wall goes behind the fridge to sleep because it's sunrise
I sip fizzy water out of a plastic bottle
I feel guilty that I'm still contributing to the climate trouble
I try to change my ways but I took that plane
Like many others again, and again, and again
Down at the marina the sea life is dead
But the tourists are happy of taking photos of the views and their heads
I long for the time of sea urchins, crabs and limpets
I long for the time of seahorses, fish and shrimp
Thriving in the rock pools and thriving in the sea
But bleached is it all now and polluted by You and Me
I can't seem to speak any more words
My heart skips a beat
It makes a sound I've never heard
It is like the sound of the earth as her spirit cracks once more
The sound of mother nature kneeling on the floor
The floor of life which is our base
If we do not pick her up there will be no more human race
Copyright © We Are Human Poetry | Year Posted 2024
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