Blue Jeans and Pearls

To trade through the Pacific Ocean An undeniable dream for nations Never mind pollution and all its ramifications The Pearl, China’s third longest river As blue jeans take the world Their warmth should make us shiver. The ecosystem easily raped and plundered By blue jeans, have you never wondered? The River Pearl what a glorious name Its river bed with shell like rocks once aflame The iridescent pear-like colours true But dying now because of 'blue'. The waters from the factories run black Some recycled, but corporations never look back The waste-dyed waters piped into the rivers life Polluting and poisoning - rampant and rife Piped into the fields this black river of death The crops cannot grow, people gasping for breath The smog that sits over the Pearl waters dyed black Will take all you have, is there no going back? The famous white dolphins will soon be gone They lived in this river the pearlesence now gone They die every day as do the crops on the shore Won’t some-one stand up and cry out ...NO MORE!!!! © 10/07/2013 GG The third longest river in china The Pearl River is so badly polluted from the industries on its river banks including the blue dye from the denim factories that all the life in it is now dying, as are the crops on the rivers banks watered by this polluted water.