Earth's Eulogy

     

It's amazing how fast we all got used to it
The droughts, the fires the floods
It's amazing how long we all ignored it
Year after year

Hurricanes
Increased in number
More disasters
More hunger

More reasons to fear
Less resources to share

Wars that never ended
Reasons that never existed
Trouble right out in the streets
But we couldn’t,
or wouldn’t see it

We didn't do anything
Until it was too late
Until this planet
Suffered an unthinkable fate

It wasn't until things got irreparably worse 
That we finally saw it,
saw our earth

As it was...

As it was

Dangling there in the universe
A miracle, a twist of fate
A fragile rock
In a bubble of air
Which happened to form
Near a perfectly bright star

And on that rock, life arose
So many lives
So much living

Eons of time
Centuries and millennia

But now, the living is over
And we are gathered here today
To remember

The earth was where my children once played
They rolled in the grass
They sprawled in the shade

Of these beautiful creatures upon it which grew
We called them Trees
Their leaves fluttered in the breeze

We were among the last generations
Who could frolic in the waves
Of the water we called oceans
If only we had known how little time was left
Before those beautiful waters became toxic
Became death

I wish we hadn't denied 
What the scientists said
They were right the whole time

I wish we’d paid more attention
And done something
Anything

Anything but nothing 

If only we had done it
Back when our earth still had a chance to survive
When we could have done something
To keep it alive

Farewell sweet earth
We will miss you like hell
Those seeds in your gardens
That you tended to so well,
Seeds that flourished in your soils and seas
Are now scattered,
flung across the galaxy

Where perhaps one day they will happen to land
On another perfectly spinning chunk of sand
And life will get a second chance
To begin again

Perhaps

The chance of our planet existing at all
Was so incredibly, incredibly small
But it did happen
Once
Once, that we know of so far.