Earth Day: Poem!

 Earth Day: Poem.

Today, April the 22nd is 'Earth Day' An international event that is celebrated around the world in support of environmental protection. The year 2021 is I believe the 51st anniversary of the celebrations. The theme this year is ' Restore our Earth'. I wrote this poem over ten years ago and things haven't changed much since. The opposite in fact.

Beyond this Point!

With not the wit to comprehend
His role in Nature's play
Quite separate from the scheme of things
He mastered all he could survey.

And thinking it a place that's strange
Of almost infinite resource
Imposed on what he can't admire
Some monument that's set in stone,
To ignorance and sometimes worse
To those a plague a curse.
Who'd measure what the profit yield
To burn the cattle in the field
And think there nothing much amiss
What kind of progress this?

Or use to ask what we have done
When fields and trees and rivers gone
And those who keep the common good
Have left a legacy that read
Caution you must be afraid
Beyond this point
There's poison laid.

Frank Murphy.