Requiem for Nature's Death

A piece about mankind's treatment of Mother Nature.

Oh requiem for nature's death
In these, the cold and lonely days
When beating halts in Mother's breast
Her life we cannot hope to save
  Our past is long, our future swift
  We shan't escape our sinking ship.

Fault lies with us and noone else
Our selfishness, our foolish youth
Has brought about this sorrowed Hell
No more shall we glimpse Eden's truth
  Our ego lies in what we take
  We can't abstain for beauty's sake.

Oh dirge we sing at lifeless end
For loss of beauty then we weep
Our tears to heaven upward send
As Gaea looks upon our sleep
  Our lonely hearts her songs sore lack
  We would but die to have them back.