Saturday, 25 February 2023

Eulogy to a dying planet

 


A solemn hymn sung silently

by the mournful trees.

The weeping willow

cries openly, a copse

surrounding the corpse

of a fallen evergreen.

Agonised words fall

from crooked silhouette trees.

Help

Me.

They shroud the ground,

a funeral for the flora.

 

Screams from the waves,

echoing between

the flotsam of human waste.

Reverberating across

the oceans and seas.

Tortured pleas.

Save

Us

Please.

Sing a carol for the coral,

a wake for the waters.

 

Birds drop like stones,

a murder of crows never to atone.

Sing an anthem in their name,

smoke follows flames.

Pollution in fumes,

no more flowers in bloom.

The rainforests doomed.

The animals cry.

A union of souls sacrificed.

A mournful goodbye.

We turn a blind eye.

Torn up the bestiary,

housed in the vestry

of lost hope.

 

Someone read the last rites,

get them all together on private flights.

Sell plastic tat as merchandise.

It will be alright.

just turn off that light.

 

Mankind suffocates on its knees.

No more bees pollinating,

no more trees.

Oxygen depleted.

Fleeting images of angels singing,

become fever dreams of demons in a blink.

Waters diseased, as the lands start to sink,

pollution wafts on the breeze.

Humans pray to be saved,

asking for a final reprieve,

but the universe turns a blind eye

and sings a eulogy for a dying planet.

 

 

 

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