From your sheltering trees
To your wondrous peaks
Your vast seas
To your trickling creeks
I do hear your desperate pleas
For us to recycle, reduce and reuse
The vast amount of refuse
That we humans do cause
With our reckless abuse

From landfill to landfill
We do defile you
With our humongous waste pile

It is you that we slowly kill
As well as ourselves
With our disregard for nature
By raping your land and thinking
    we are grand

This is why we all must take a stand
To protect you from us all
By listening to your seasonal call
That takes us through Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall

For it is you, oh Mother of us all
Who brings us into your hearth
Like a mother to its baby
After giving birth

So from this day forward, dear Mother Earth
We do make a pact
To try and protect you from all harmful acts
So that we can leave behind
For the next 7 generations
Trees that are kind and
    a sky that is true


by savvy-03/06/95...

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