What Happened?

What happened to the days of playing hours in the sun? Where in our hearts and on our minds was how fast we could run? Now we have these ozone days, SPF’s of 45 The cancer rates increasing and it’s eating us alive. Where did all the wonders go, playing in the woods? Where we would build our wooden forts like only children could? Now our wooden forts are replaced with cold concrete With nothing but the winds of change beneath our roughened feet. And how can we put in words, the softness of its fur? When left are only pictures and our memory is blurred? What do we tell our children? How can we explain? The snow that we used to eat is made from poisoned rain. And when they finally ask us why we did not care, As rain forests disappeared and all we did was stare, What will be your answer? Will you try to answer true? Or will you let your answer fade when your time on earth is through? It’s time to take a view, it’s time to stand and fight Someone must walk a narrow path and stand up to what is right Even if the road is long and barred at every turn Will you finally install a plan from what’s already learned? Remove the threat and then in time the earth will learn to heal. Replant the trees where there now is just cold concrete and steel And, in the end when it matters most, it will surely come to pass You did what needed to be done to insure the Earth would last