Listen closely
Hear the silent tears
As Mother Nature
Realizes her greatest fears
Her prized trees being cut down
Oxygen producing trees
Wildlife homes
Brought to their knees
Over a century of air pollution
Greenhouse effect and Ozone Layer
“Nothing to worry about”
This from an expert naysayer
“Global warming”, they say
“Just foolish nonsense,
For politicians are the experts
Not the educated scientists”
Plant life suffocating
Choking on unbreathable air
Planet Earth caught
In an unescapable snare
A bad day in the forecast
Better find some shelter
As the Sun bears down
The heat rises to a swelter
Glaciers melting at alarming rate
Into the ocean current
The Atlantic conveyor belt
To a new direction it’s sent
Marine Mammals dead on beaches
Coral reefs fading fast
The world’s oceans good health
Gone to the distant past
Climate changes across the globe
Raging storms out of control
Writings upon the wall
A horrific future foretold
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