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
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