If Mother Earth Came Forth Today

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14/8/2025

If Mother Earth came forth today
she'd throw her hand up, and would say.
"Oh my dear world what have you done?
Look closely at what you've become."

Humanity with no regard
to live in peace can't be too hard!
Destruction, pillage, selfish greed,
all comes from want, and not from need.

You strip the trees, the soil is bare
You mine my lands without due care.
You take and take, do not replace
You slaughter half the human race.

You poison water ways and seas,
and spread around filthy disease.
You cut the throat of fellow man
what once was good, now out of hand.

With dirty politics you fight
make sure that love is out of sight.
Instead, keep taking from the pot
quite soon you will destroy the lot.

So when I stop and look around
there's little joy that can be found.
Despite the crisis found of late
You're still at war! consumed with hate.

Perhaps I'll offer some advice
before you pay the final price.
The future's really up to you,
and will depend on what you do.

Be thankful that your still alive
but change is needed to survive.
What legacy you leave behind
is really up to all mankind.

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