Paper and Plastic, Is Man Fantastic

Me, I'm just part of mother earth I'm just a little particle At least mother earth knows I'm worth Me and other particles We make up her ground For purity it is, it's found all around For millions of years We absorbed so many things Decaying plants and flesh In daily life it brings Then the day arrived With the experiments of man Creating what was never here Was it in their future plans I can still recall the day Seeing a fluttering near me It was so white, drifting like a leaf But I couldn't picture the tree Beside me it lay Not for long, just a couple of weeks Here, then it was gone Us particles no longer weeped The fortunate in us lived on Living many, many years But this day I'll always remember Us particles choked, and lingering tears Generations now have passed The same colour, white like the paper This time it never left Mans creation, who cares, their caper