Pristine

Pristine is the word that hardly
fits
like sour is sweet it’s just a misfit
but its the closet we’ve 
come to describing that 
place
what happened there was a 
worldly disgrace
oh how in our hunger 
for power and fuel
we’ve chose a path
laid by fools
and now we must pay 
such a dear price
In plants and birds and 
other animal life
all because we failed to
heed the warnings…
and not think twice
and the word of this deed
shall get around…
on how we destroyed
                               PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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