Perhaps This is The Message,
The Wise Old Night Caller,
Was Trying to Convey;
After His Late Night Visit,
I Spent Several Sad Hours,
Thinking About Our World, Today.
The statistics now paint an extremely horrid picture
Over 70 percent of Earth’s animals reside in forests
Yet, 60 percent of Earth’s forests, are already gone
It won’t be very long at all, before we destroy the rest
Over 90 percent of America’s virgin forests now cut down
And they once covered much of the lower forty-eight states
With only 10 percent of these forests now remaining in America
We have doomed many birds and animals to a most hideous fate
And in West Africa, 90 percent of its rain forests, have also been leveled
In Brazil and Indonesia, deforestation is occurring, at an ever increasing rate
Logging, man made fires, and land clearing, for agriculture and cattle grazing
Are destroying plants not yet even discovered which might help the human race
But the harm that we have caused does not end here
Studies show that forest destruction results in droughts
More and more areas of the globe, are experiencing these
Which will cause more hardship and famine, without a doubt
Even worse, Earth’s trees are natural consumers of carbon dioxide
One of the major components of very destructive greenhouse gases
Deforestation removes our carbon eaters, and the burning of forests
Pumps even more deadly carbon dioxide into our air, extremely fast
As with our oceans and rivers and lakes, we seem hell bent on destruction
All to produce more food and living space, for our skyrocketing humanity
But will this planet even be worth living on, once we destroy everything on it
The air not fit to breathe, and very few animals or birds remaining, on land or sea
©2009, Mr. Ed
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mike
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So, what gives?
Georg
Well said and needs to be said. What can we hope for? That we'll regain our senses, understand we're dooming ourselves and everyone after to a barren earth? Our sad history is against us because we give ourselves rights we don't have.
John
Newfie Hugs, Rose
Fee
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
We'll be living in bubble houses with pumped-in oxygen and go to tree museums(as Joni said way back when)if something doesn't give. Thank you,Ed!
By the way, if you look closely at the shape of your poem you see Mother Earth.
God bless,
Lew