One Planet

“One Planet”
If you walk carefully barefoot outside
You see there’s nothing we can hide
Feel her face wholly on your soles
Trust that she inherently knows
Don’t you hear the solemn pleas
When the wind is rustling through the trees
Sending plastic through the breeze
Don’t you hear the thunderous roar
When you’re sitting near the waves
that lap at the polluted sandy floor
Maybe we can’t be saved
People perpetually produce more trash
So when glaciers melt and forests crash
Precious life is traded for meaningless cash
The lowest valleys and deepest caves
are what we’ve managed to contaminate
And past the tallest mountaintops,
up through space
We send to orbit our tainted waste
We are outrunning our own race
But there’s still hope for this sacred place
Don’t you hear the mighty cry
She’s begging,
‘Please don’t let me die’