Of all the planets around our glorious star, the Sun One we call home, abundant with life giving waters The blue orb we will leave behind when we are done Into the futures hands of our sons and our daughters Of exquisite beauty, life-full, kind and nurturing Her life-force, our loving, beautiful Mother Earth Giving her all, her life breath and endearing self With abundant water and rich, food-growing dirt Fresh water streams and wide, land parting rivers Splendid rolling hills and teasing white-tipped mountains Fresh life giving oxygen, and protective shroud of ozone And gift of water-recycling clouds with life-seeding rains Oceans teeming with countless myriads of life forms Island paradises at our whim for fun and playing Home of happiness, peace and hand-holding love Selflessly given, and all ours for the taking Flying the skies and sailing her deep blue oceans Playing in the water, and her beautiful beaches Tilling her rich soil and using all of her bounties Exploring her tall, deep forests and rivers far reaches But what do we do to this awesome home of ours? How do respond to her giving and her kindness? In what condition are we leaving her for our children? And our future grandchildren, how exactly do we bless? With chemicals we kill her trees and poison her precious soil We slaughter the whales senseless till the waters run red And to satisfy our hunger, ego and intense greed for wealth We rob, maim and kill our very own sisters and brothers dead The volume of black gold sucked out of her giving bosom Then spilled in her pure oceans and her golden sands Forever-lasting refuse, plastic and Styrofoam Spread, contaminate and filling mountains in all the lands Now she seems down, defeated and out of breath Our Mother Earth who we have, for so long forsaken What can we do differently? How can the human family help? How can we make up for all the abuse she has taken? Can we pause for a moment and start using our intellect And control our quest for wealth and getting richer? When we create our own artificial flowers and beauty While steadily ruining our Mother Earth's pretty picture? Mother Earth is our home...
And one of a kind When we damage and destroy, no where else to go To protect, preserve and care, we should all say YES! To contaminate, neglect and abuse, hold a steadfast NO!