To those who need to listen…

Dear those who came before me and to those who will come after,

By the state of the world,

You can surely see,

Our planet ripped to part into tiny, itty bitty shreds,

For those who lived before me,

What did you do to the state of the earth?

Animals driven to extinction,

From the wolves that gather,

To the beavers that build,

And the hedgehogs that roam,

All Driven meat to the slaughter.

But enterally it is not you to blame,

But ourselves, standing firmly in the present.

Oceans full to burst with plastic waste,

Gases that surround the air filling lungs with fumes,

Our ice melts at alarming rates and yet we just sit and watch,

We sit and stare at what we have become,

Crumbling dust, a desert of inhospitable dwellings left scattered,

Creatures unable to survive due to poison in the skies,

Poison in the seas.

We will mourn the loss when the final call of the birds are heard,

An eery silence that sweeps the lands.

To the ones who are born after,

I’m sorry for the devastation you will witness,

Natures tunes singing no more,

The calling of deep water songs stopped in their tracks,

As litter and gases pile up in front of your eyes,

We say a final goodbye to human kind,

The ones who destroyed, the ones needing more everyday,

Perhaps I address those who have disintegrated into nothingness,

Travelled to a second rock floating ready to be demolished in obscurity,

Or possibly, I am writing to an earth no more.

Sincerely,

Our dying planet.