This World We Share

By OneKind supporter Fraser Murray

The glaciers and ice-caps are shrinking

No longer hard ice, but melt water flow

Poor wandering Polar Bears another symbol

Of helpless animals with nowhere to go

Sea levels undisputedly rising

And storm surges no longer quite so rare

Creeping water grasping at land and homes

Mostly from those least to blame – oh sad and unfair

Look beneath the water’s surface

No longer abundant life you will see

The ecosystem, like the coral is dying

Don’t look away – it’s because of you and me

The situation on land equally desperate

With fires, storms, droughts and desertification

What once seemed to us to affect only others

Now knocks on the door of every single nation

Planet Earth once generous with infinite lifeforms

Such as birds, insects, plants and the beautiful trees

But everywhere we take, we kill, we burn and destroy

And now extinction is upon us, it’s already too late for many of these

Our human race boasting of its intelligence

Yet behaving in a way that makes me unsure

We evolve and invent and grow with such speed

Whilst all other species can only suffocate and endure

It’s what the scientists have been trying to tell us

And something that we surely can no longer deny

If we keep going with all this growth and pollution

Then all that we know and love will surely wither and die

Now is the time for everyone to face the facts

To look closely at the very lives we lead

How so much of what we do is killing the planet

Simply because of our gluttony and our greed