No Environment, No Life

Think globally, act locally,
The desert shall rejoice
And blossom as rose,
Man has been endowed with reason
With the power to create
So that he can add to what he's been given.
But up to now he has only been a destroyer,
Rather than being a creator
Forests keep disappearing
Population keep increasing.
Rivers dry up
Landslides occurring from the top
Glaciers are melting
Water is vanishing,
But shame on humans
They aren't improving.
Wildlife's become extinct
The climate's ruined
Everyday the land is growing poorer
And the crops are growing uglier,
Make it a green peace
Thats the point
But what to do,
We are just lost in a woo.
The poor tread lightest upon the earth
The higher our income
The geater the outcome,
The more resources we control
The more havoc we wroke.
What would the world be
Once bereft
Of wet and wildness,
Let them be left,
O'let them be left.
Long live the weeds and the wilderness,
Kindly be possessive towards the environment
After all the destructions,
When we will be left sans of (sans- Pronounced sone meaning without)
Every natural beauty
All that remains for us
Will be of no utility
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel.
A boutique, and a swinging hot spot,
What have we done to the earth?
What have we done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and did her.
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I think that i shall never see,
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all
Its a sincere request in the end from my side,
Save the Environment, save our Mother Earth!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Patton Avatar
March 12, 2016 at 5:13 PM
This is everything to me right now! We are nature, nature is us. As we destroy it, we destroy our purest of selfs. Thank you for sharing, I adore your words!
Spence Sr Avatar
May 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM
I like the flow of this poem. Leave it to man, he will tear it up every time. Welcome to Poetry Soup and keep writing. Great job! Joseph
Fox Avatar
May 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM
I also used to believe in the Bogey man when I was young,I also believed in god. I know better now! Its a control thing ,obedience,and power! I must sound like some sort of madman to you,but it's just the truth as I see it, and I'm a happy man !
Brown Avatar
May 28, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Enjoyed reading your poetry and I thank you for sharing it with us Nekhel. Have a wonderful weekend filled with good health love and loads of inspiration. Love, Carol
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