One moment in time a human
celebrated curling smoke rising
through their homes, and flickering
flames shone, softening their fear of
growing darkness and the waiting wilful wilderness.
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Then like Saruman, they learnt
to use it to enslave, and invent
monstrous machines, turning
buried treasures to killing gases,
polluting their joy, stealing, injuring innate innocence.
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The fires now burn earth’s lungs,
animals lunge for safety, terrified
people flee, flames leaping
from vast fires, which fill the over
heated atmosphere with gas,
creating a string of dreadful, deadly disasters.
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Gifted to us by a gracious hand,
a blue planet, oceans for a heart,
forests to be breathe for creation,
and ice caps sparkling as eyes
and the call of children a clear call of conscience.
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But, now the heart is diseased,
the lungs collapsing with cancer,
the melted poles reveal a terrible
lack of sight, amidst the call of
little ones, silenced by the grip of grim greed.