"Earth Day Now"

Earth day the funeral bells

your temperature burning

dark hole in the ozone,

greenhouse warming

awareness with hope

our April twenty two

celebrating the cause.

Funding wildlife useless

refuse a diabolic language

dying flowers and grass,

green trees burnt down

this earth crying why?

Where are the birds

multicolored blue

lost and lonely

here in the zoo,

fast fading away

a memory of home

the Amazon forest.

A neighbor of Africa

for the Wildlife Society

hunting game for trophies,

we bagged a big one

skinned alive there

hanging to dry,

boasting away

in the daily news

published the hunter.

This gift for your silence

funding wildlife protection

ten million dollars cash,

for these foolish fools

waving on the TV,

hiding dolphins

in the murky pools

confined to die alone,

screeching mercy please?

Our wales being harpooned

a frenzy of steel cables,

with bleeding blades

drawn and quart-ed,

iced to last

for a fortune

auctioned at sea,

seeing Greenpeace

shouting violent voices

to save our world today -

God on high our Captain.